Early modern human
Early modern humans replaced the Neanderthals following their extinction between 50,000 and 30,000 BC as a result of the intervention of the Daemons. (PROSE: The Universal Databank [+]Loading...["The Universal Databank (reference book)"], TV: The Dæmons [+]Loading...["The Dæmons (TV story)"]) There remained considerable disagreement as to whether the Neanderthals were a step in the evolutionary process leading to modern humans, or were simply an offshoot branch that became extinct, while modern humans evolved in parallel. (PROSE: The Universal Databank [+]Loading...["The Universal Databank (reference book)"])
Biology[[edit] | [edit source]]
By modern human standards, the early human tribesman would look almost like they do, but the skull was slightly larger and the eye sockets were more rectangular. Their physique also bore testament to their environment; early humans were stronger, faster and fitter than modern humans. (PROSE: Prehistory Repeating Itself [+]Loading...["Prehistory Repeating Itself (feature)"])
Culture[[edit] | [edit source]]
Early humans were semi-nomadic hunters and gatherers, using stone tools and weapons like spears and axes to bring down Mammoths and cave bears. They wore ragged clothes made from fur or flax, and dwelled in tents or crude shelters. They had their own spoken languages, but writing would not be invented for another 30,000 years. (PROSE: Prehistory Repeating Itself [+]Loading...["Prehistory Repeating Itself (feature)"])
Early humans had primitive superstitions, attributing power to certain dangerous creatures as well as the weather and sacred places, but they had only the beginning of a culture. In time, they would come to make paintings of ochre, and make clay statues to bring fertility and good hunting. (PROSE: Prehistory Repeating Itself [+]Loading...["Prehistory Repeating Itself (feature)"])
History[[edit] | [edit source]]
Within the Stone Age, some 35,000 years prior to the 21st century, Europe was inhabited by early human tribesmen, some of the first anatomically modern humans. (PROSE: Prehistory Repeating Itself [+]Loading...["Prehistory Repeating Itself (feature)"]) The First Doctor and his companions, Susan Foreman, Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright, encountered one such tribe of early humans, the Tribe of Gum, and ultimately fled to the TARDIS to escape them. (TV: An Unearthly Child [+]Loading...["An Unearthly Child (TV story)"])
