Did cavemen have acne?

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Well?

― Amon (eman), Friday, 15 April 2005 04:28 (twenty years ago)

God, I hope so.

― Tyrone Willie Demetrius DeAndre DeShawn (deangulberry), Friday, 15 April 2005 04:31 (twenty years ago)

Sounds like the title of one of those Fun Facts/Amazing Answers type books.

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 15 April 2005 04:33 (twenty years ago)

dean wins teh thread.

but seriously, imagine a cro-magnon or homo habilis squinting at it's reflection in prehistoric marsh water while it traps a whitehead on it's cheek between it's forefinger and thumb and prepares to deal it the final pinch of doom.

― Amon (eman), Friday, 15 April 2005 04:38 (twenty years ago)

http://www.thenorthend.org/tne/images/jrod.jpg

― Tyrone Willie Demetrius DeAndre DeShawn (deangulberry), Friday, 15 April 2005 04:41 (twenty years ago)

suddenly the prehistoric telephone rings. he picks up the rock connected to a vine and hold it to his ear. it's his buddy gunga! the whole gang is down at the tar pits making out and drinking mud wine!...

― Amon (eman), Friday, 15 April 2005 04:47 (twenty years ago)

Did Cavemen Have Acne?

― Remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 15 April 2005 04:54 (twenty years ago)

Oonga and Boonga don't have to worry about acne because they use CLAAAAAA & CLAAAAAAA which clears all unsightly caveman blemishes. But because they haven't invented the wheel yet the lid's square and they can't get it off.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 15 April 2005 05:16 (twenty years ago)

Lots of working outside = lots of ultra-violet light = not much acne.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 15 April 2005 07:32 (twenty years ago)

Yeah the old hunter gather diet would help also.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Friday, 15 April 2005 08:02 (twenty years ago)

inspired by remy's quest for truth i pared down the search terms and found this article on cavemen's diets in which they studied modern hunter-gatherers. a couple of interesting tidbits:

The Eskimos gave up their hunting and gathering life style, moved to civilization, and became the labor force. Overnight they switched from an all fresh food raw diet to a diet of 100% processed foods. In a short time of 15 years women were getting gall bladder disease, children crooked teeth and acne, and men heart attacks and diabetes, all conditions formerly absent.

The young people grew up to have 32 straight, decay-free teeth and no acne. City kids hung out at the soda fountain and had crooked teeth, tooth decay, and were getting acne. I didn't appreciate what I was seeing until about a decade later.

― Amon (eman), Friday, 15 April 2005 11:49 (twenty years ago)

Wow. Craziness.

― Ian Riese-Moraine. To Hell with you and your gradual evolution! (Eastern Mantra), Friday, 15 April 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

So stop eating chocolate you lazy man.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 15 April 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

I thought I heard something gross about this, something about acne being = to the trick animals do to secrete oil on their fur...

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Friday, 15 April 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

Yeah it's pretty nuts that we switched from natural habitats and lifestyles that we had evolved over tens of thousands of years to be healthy and effective in to a completely artificial environment and suddenly got saddled with ten tons of new chronic, endemic, highly virulent pathological conditions!

Wacky!

― TOMBOT, Friday, 15 April 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

TOMBOT in needlessly sarcastic post shockah

― cave, Friday, 15 April 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

I find it fun to talk about evolution, esp when it's relevant to the discussion at hand, because it makes me feel like I take a political stand!

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Friday, 15 April 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

ten months pass...

http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/21772.html

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 16 February 2006 16:10 (twenty years ago)

possibly nsfw: caveteen scrawls

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 16 February 2006 16:13 (twenty years ago)

http://www.zzessy.com/images/Caenyr/captainCaveman.jpg

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 16 February 2006 16:14 (twenty years ago)

They Airbrushed My Face

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Thursday, 16 February 2006 16:17 (twenty years ago)

fourteen years pass...

Hi, I can clear this up!

yes, we did, but we were still sexier than modern humans

― popeye's arse (Neanderthal), Monday, 17 August 2020 01:59 (five years ago)

clear this up

I see what you did there

― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 17 August 2020 02:06 (five years ago)

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