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...Good news, paleoanthropology and commercial fans: the Geico Cavemen are getting a sitcom on ABC. Despite misgivings about the viability of a 30-sec. spot as source material, blog site DEFAMER praises "the network's attempt to synthesize the best elements of auto-insurance advertising and situational comedy into a groundbreaking, hybrid infotainment form." SCORE...
Such spectacles as these, suggesting the start of a full-blown trend, just might put a tiny chink in the razor business and a serious crimp in Kiam's sunny sales pitch, not to mention his syntax. "Is Don Johnson of the prehistoric cavemen who didn't know how to start fires nor learned good grooming?" he spluttered recently. Indeed, a little perspective might be useful right now, although the historical foundation for this great stubble bubble stops somewhat short of the dawn...
...those days we ate our meat raw, like animals." The speaker is Viktor Jurubu, an Indonesian farmer in his 60s, who, in his T shirt and sarong, looks little like the cavemen he's describing. Except for his height, which is about 140 cm. In the world of anthropology, Jurubu's small size is big news because he and his 246 fellow villagers of Rampasasa on the remote island of Flores say they are descended from a tribe of tiny, hairy folk whom they call "the short people." "We didn't have knives but used rocks," he explains. "We didn...
...book Invented Eden, asks if someone did just that. In 1986, a Swiss reporter named Oswald Iten returned to the rain forest and found the Tasaday wearing Levi's jeans and T shirts. They said that they were local farmers who had been coerced previously into playing cavemen. A few weeks later, a team from Der Stern arrived, led by the Tasaday's original discoverer, and found them once again wearing leaves. That, supposedly, proved they were fake. Comparisons were drawn with Piltdown Man, the great paleoanthropological hoax of the early 20th century...
...world is going through more fundamental change than it has in hundreds, perhaps thousands of years. The head economist at Sandia National Laboratories, Arnold Baker, said it's the "biggest change since the cavemen began bartering." Do you want to be a player, a full-scale participant who embraces change? Here is the opportunity to participate in the lovely, messy playground called "Let's reinvent the world...