Interest
Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "caveman" over time.
Mentions
Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "caveman" over time.
The caveman is a stock character representative of primitive humans in the Paleolithic. The popularization of the type dates to the early 20th century, when Neanderthals were influentially described as "simian" or "ape-like" by Marcellin Boule and Arthur Keith. Read more on Wikipedia