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cave dweller

noun as in someone who dwells in a cave

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The film uses a fable-like framing story about two prehistoric cave dwellers who may very well be the first married couple.

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It was the middle of the 20th Century when England's last cave dwellers gave up their homes in a rural part of the country near Birmingham.

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But new evidence from the oldest known DNA from the British Isles shows the two sets of cave dwellers had dramatically different ancestry.

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Posting videos of his projects made him a star in a growing subgenre of people pretending to live like cave dwellers and building things out of raw materials with their bare hands.

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“A stranger comes to town and changes everything” is likely a story first told by cave dwellers.

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