cave dweller
noun
1
: one (such as a prehistoric human) that dwells in a cave
2
: one that lives in a city apartment building
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From the day the first primitive human clambered up a tree while fleeing a pack of ravenous wolves — and later grunted out the details of their narrow escape to cave dwellers around a campfire — the human brain appears to have been hard-wired to process and retain stories.
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Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 8 July 2024
But ancient cave dwellers weren’t sitting around the fire quaffing crisp lagers and hazy IPAs.
—Leslie Shapiro, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
But by dragging their fingers across the rock and pushing them into the cave wall, these creative cave dwellers deliberately produced enduring lines and dots that would lie hidden beneath the French countryside for tens of thousands of years.
—Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2023
Suddenly this obscure, blind cave dweller has become extremely interesting.
—Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 10 Feb. 2010
Even for a prehistoric cave dweller, the tablet could prove potently absorbing.
—Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
Rather his vain, bombshell wife Chrystal (Abbey Lee) is the one to watch, the physical wear and tear of aging propelling her to a vicious mental breakdown, devolving to a kind of monstrous cave dweller.
—Robert Daniels, Vulture, 24 July 2021
The discovery earns the bugs the unique honor of being the only cave dwellers ever described from the Cretaceous, the period spanning 66 to 145 million years ago and the final era of the non-avian dinosaurs.
—Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Feb. 2020
Through eons of incremental innovation, a cave dweller’s sketching stick evolved into the No.
—Robert Lee Hotz, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2018
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Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 8 July 2024
But ancient cave dwellers weren’t sitting around the fire quaffing crisp lagers and hazy IPAs.
—Leslie Shapiro, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
But by dragging their fingers across the rock and pushing them into the cave wall, these creative cave dwellers deliberately produced enduring lines and dots that would lie hidden beneath the French countryside for tens of thousands of years.
—Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2023
Suddenly this obscure, blind cave dweller has become extremely interesting.
—Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 10 Feb. 2010
Even for a prehistoric cave dweller, the tablet could prove potently absorbing.
—Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
Rather his vain, bombshell wife Chrystal (Abbey Lee) is the one to watch, the physical wear and tear of aging propelling her to a vicious mental breakdown, devolving to a kind of monstrous cave dweller.
—Robert Daniels, Vulture, 24 July 2021
The discovery earns the bugs the unique honor of being the only cave dwellers ever described from the Cretaceous, the period spanning 66 to 145 million years ago and the final era of the non-avian dinosaurs.
—Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Feb. 2020
Through eons of incremental innovation, a cave dweller’s sketching stick evolved into the No.
—Robert Lee Hotz, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2018
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