{"id":128790,"date":"2015-11-13T05:22:17","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T12:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/13\/in-search-of-the-cavemans-club.html"},"modified":"2015-11-16T09:31:53","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T16:31:53","slug":"in-search-of-the-cavemans-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/13\/in-search-of-the-cavemans-club.html","title":{"rendered":"In Search Of &#8230; the Caveman&#039;s Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bamm-bamm and Alley-Oop and <i>2001: A Space Odyssey<\/i> notwithstanding, there&#39;s actually no evidence that cavemen used clubs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/cavemen-inherited-their-clubs-from-16th-century-european-wildmen'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/_hWhZvJXR1AHHrL4a1MgViSnAN-szcI4mOhohw6MJHa6nwnyzU-KiWFiad-Yy5VtFKurX3mskRH47GMmbrobtiSNnsLPF1miOb3hVKU=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/cavemen-inherited-their-clubs-from-16th-century-european-wildmen'>Cavemen Inherited Their Clubs From 16th Century European Wildmen<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nLike Cupid has a bow, like ninjas have nunchucks, cavemen have clubs.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/S8rishHD7RG'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bamm-bamm and Alley-Oop and 2001: A Space Odyssey notwithstanding, there&#39;s actually no evidence that cavemen used clubs. Cavemen Inherited Their Clubs From 16th Century European Wildmen Like Cupid has a bow, like ninjas have nunchucks, cavemen have clubs. 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