Back in the days,
when home was a cave stuck on the face of a cliff.
Kids, babies, cubs, kittens or whatever you like to call the offspring, all
have one thing in common. They love to play. So I think we can safely assume
that caveman kids played. But with what did they play with.
What amused the minds of our ancestor's kids when they were lying around the
fire after a hard day learning about staying alive. We are still trying to work
out the minor details of the past lives of children of prehistory, but we can
dream.
Anyway, were the first jigsaw puzzles just leaves that had been ripped up into
little pieces so the little ones could put them back together. Was this a
teaching aid so the kids could learn which plants were safe to eat. We will
possible never know but it is good to ponder.
Back in prehistory before houses and cars and TVs, video games and all the
modern gadgets that we have nowadays. What toys did caveman kids play with, when
daddy was out hunting the mighty mammoth or giant sloth. And mommy was gathering
vegetables and herbs and grasses and whatever else they ate back then.
Anyway many artifacts have been dug up, mostly bone and rock carving of people
and wild animals. Beautiful carvings, something to be really proud of. Don't you
think that maybe, just maybe, it might have been made by a dotting daddy for his
little son.
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In the future when future man digs up what we leave behind, what conclusions
will they come to. Looking at some of the dinosaur toys available, would they
conclude that these beasts actually walked among the skyscrapers.
In the 25th century if you dug up an old car toy that hadn't rusted away, how
would you explain it.
Would you say it was some sort of God that we worshiped, or was it a decorative
item we used to show power. It could have been a model of the king's chariot,
but do we stop to think that it may have been something for our kids to play
with, while we were out making more money to buy even more things for our kids
to play with.
We have war games with tiny toy soldiers and cowboy and Indian sets. What is to
stop the tiny carved human figures from prehistory being toys to teach the kids
the best way to hunt down a mammoth or rhino or deer.
If we made some replica models of some of the artifacts, and gave them to our
kids to play with in the sand pit. We might see them reenacting a mammoth hunt
or chasing a wild deer into the ground.
Some of the most valuable artifacts would suddenly be delegated from God status
to kid status.
I like to look at what we
do now and them dream about what could have happened in the caveman days.
Nowadays in any toyshop there is a shelf of toy plastic animals. Anything we
see in the wild or on the farm or in the home is there in little packets.
Did the caveman kids also have collections of toys. Now, our kids even have toy
cavemen to play with, so what did caveman kids play with.
I can remember Fred Flintstone on TV but did Pebbles and BamBam
have any toys. All I can remember is BamBam running around with this big
club. Now you can buy big air-filled clubs and hammers that don’t hurt when
they hit you on the head.
But back to reality, kids love to play and caveman kids would also have played,
but with what.
Toy bows and arrows and
toy spears. Like kids today who love anything to do with war. Would all the
spear points belong to daddy's toolbox or would the smaller ones belong to the
son.
They must have had something to play with, but with what.
Maybe in the future someone scratching around in a long forgotten cave will
unearth the Barbie prototype. Or the lovely bird carved from a long dead
mammoth tusk just might have been from mummy to daughter. And not some elegantly
carved offering to an unknown God.
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