| in the days, when home was a cave stuck on the | | | | things for our kids to play with. |
| face of a cliff. | | | | We have war games with tiny toy soldiers and |
| Kids, babies, cubs, kittens or whatever you like to | | | | cowboy and Indian sets. What is to stop the tiny |
| call the offspring, all have one thing in common. | | | | carved human figures from prehistory being toys |
| They love to play. So I think we can safely | | | | to teach the kids the best way to hunt down a |
| assume that caveman kids played. But with what | | | | mammoth or rhino or deer. |
| did they play with. | | | | If we made some replica models of some of the |
| What amused the minds of our ancestor's kids. | | | | artifacts, and gave them to our kids to play with |
| When they were lying around the fire after a | | | | in the sand pit. We might see them reenacting a |
| hard day learning about staying alive. We are still | | | | mammoth hunt or chasing a wild deer into the |
| trying to work out the minor details of the past | | | | ground. |
| lives of children of prehistory, but we can dream. | | | | Some of the most valuable artifacts would |
| Anyway, were the first jigsaw puzzles just leaves | | | | suddenly be delegated from God status to kid |
| that had been ripped up into little pieces so the | | | | status. |
| little ones could put them back together. Was this | | | | I like to look at what we do now and them |
| a teaching aid so the kids could learn which plants | | | | dream about what could have happened in the |
| were safe to eat. We will possible never know | | | | caveman days. |
| but it is good to ponder. | | | | Nowadays in any toyshop there is a shelf of toy |
| Back in prehistory, before houses and cars and | | | | plastic animals. Anything we see in the wild or on |
| TVs, video games and all the modern gadgets | | | | the farm or in the home is there in little packets. |
| that we have nowadays. What toys did caveman | | | | Did the caveman kids also have collections of |
| kids play with, when daddy was out hunting the | | | | toys. Now, our kids even have toy cavemen to |
| mighty mammoth or giant sloth. And mommy | | | | play with, so what did caveman kids play with. |
| was gathering vegetables and herbs and grasses | | | | I can remember “Fred Flintstone” |
| and whatever else they ate back then. | | | | on TV but did Pebbles and BamBam have any |
| Anyway many artifacts have been dug up, | | | | toys. All I can remember is BamBam running |
| mostly bone and rock carving of people and wild | | | | around with this big club. Now you can buy big |
| animals. Beautiful carvings, something to be really | | | | air-filled clubs and hammers that don’t |
| proud of. Don't you think that maybe, just | | | | hurt when they hit you on the head. |
| maybe, it might have been made by a dotting | | | | But back to reality, kids love to play and caveman |
| daddy for his little son. | | | | kids would also have played, but with what. |
| In the future when future man digs up what we | | | | Toy bows and arrows and toy spears. Like kids |
| leave behind, what conclusions will they come to. | | | | today who love anything to do with war. Would all |
| Looking at some of the dinosaur toys available, | | | | the spear points belong to daddy's toolbox or |
| would they conclude that these beasts actually | | | | would the smaller ones belong to the son. |
| walked among the skyscrapers. | | | | They must have had something to play with, but |
| In the 25th century if you dug up an old car toy | | | | with what. |
| that hadn't rusted away, how would you explain it. | | | | Maybe in the future someone scratching around in |
| Would you say it was some sort of God that we | | | | a long forgotten cave will unearth the Barbie |
| worshiped, or was it a decorative item we used | | | | prototype. Or the lovely bird carved from a long |
| to show power. It could have been a model of | | | | dead mammoth tusk just might have been from |
| the king's chariot. | | | | mummy to daughter. |
| But do we stop to think, that it may have been | | | | And not some elegantly carved offering to an |
| something for our kids to play with. While we | | | | unknown God. |
| were out making more money to buy even more | | | | |