13175_0294_huntinggathering1
1960s
Shows how the Neanderthal caveman and the Cro-Magnon family provided for themselves by dramatizing events in their everyday lives. Shot of marsh or lake. Shot from behind of caveman hardening a spear in a fire. Shot of caveman making a primitive bola from hide and stones, and whirling it. A hunter drags a dog carcass through the desert; he ties it up in a tree and begins to skin it. Shot of a cave dwelling with animal skulls and bones littering the floor. Shot of cave man crouching to move through cavern tunnels. CU hands pounding bones with a rock. Shot of cave dwellers next to a huge pile of bones and rocks. MS cave man selects flint from the pile and hits it on a rock; it breaks. CU of the same hands breaking bones using a rock. Craftsmen examines stones he’s chipped.