Caveman during Ice Age

The term, caveman, has been used popularly to describe early humans. Homo Sapieans did not appear until after the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. However, our ancestors did coexist with a number of mammals that are now extinct including woolly mammoths and saber-toothed cats.

👉 In Job 30:6-8 ” To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together. They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.”

Many animal species were driven to extinction by the advancing and retreating ice ages. Humanity survived primarily by becoming more intelligent and adaptable. This allowed us to develop new cultural technology to deal with cold environments and changing food sources, especially during the last 1/4 million years. One of the greatest problems in the cold regions would have been the relative scarcity of plant foods that humans could eat during the winters. In response to this, our ancestors became more proficient at hunting animals, especially large ones that provided more calories. This required inventing more sophisticated hunting skills as well as better weapons and butchering tools. These changes in subsistence pattern were essential for our survival.

During ice ages, those species that were not driven to extinction by the cold commonly evolved larger, more massive bodies as a means of producing and retaining more heat. This was especially true of mammals in the northern hemisphere. This is to be expected, given the predictions of Bergmann’s rule. Humans evolved larger bodies during the Pleistocene

The Pleistocene Epoch is typically defined as the time period that began about 2.6 million years ago and lasted until about 11,700 years ago. The most recent Ice Age occurred then, as glaciers covered huge parts of the planet Earth.

In Job 38:30 “For the water turns to ice as hard as rock, and the surface of the water freezes.

The Pleistocene Epoch is the first in which Homo sapiens , and by the end of the epoch humans could be found in nearly every part of the planet. The Pleistocene Epoch was the first epoch in the Quaternary Period and the sixth in the Cenozoic Era. It was followed by the current stage, called the Holocene Epoch.

👉 In Job 24:18-19 “They should be swift on the face of the waters,Their portion should be cursed in the earth,So that no one would turn into the way of their vineyards.As drought and heat consume the snow waters…“

👉 In Job 37:6 “For to the snow He says, ‘Fall on the earth,’ And to the downpour and the rain, ‘Be strong.’

Worldwide ice sheets:

At the time of the Pleistocene, the continents had moved to their current positions. At one point during the Ice Age, sheets of ice covered all of Antarctica, large parts of Europe, North America, and South America, and small areas in Asia. In North America they stretched over Greenland and Canada and parts of the northern United States. The remains of glaciers of the Ice Age can still be seen in parts of the world, including Greenland and Antarctica.