An index of fictional works that star/focus on prehistoric humans, be they neanderthal, early modern human, or whatever else, from any time period/world.
Note that "caveman" is a bit of a misnomer. It is now generally thought that most prehistoric humans, even the early species like Homo erectus, lived in man-made huts and lived much like hunter-gatherers do today
when they had no possibility of sheltering in caves. Earlier human ancestors likely sheltered in trees like modern great apes. However, the association of early human fossils with caves, combined with medieval and classical myths of club-dragging "wild men" or "troglodytes" have irreversibly cemented the idea of the caveman in popular culture so it's not uncommon to hear the term used even in works where the primitive human characters don't live in caves.
See also Prehistoria and Stone Punk.
Examples:
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (early part)
- 10,000 BC
- Alpha (2018)
- Ao: The Last Hunter
- Bone Tomahawk
- Caveman
- The Clan of the Cave Bear
- Creatures the World Forgot
- The Descent
- Dinosaurus!
- Eegah!
- Eliminators
- Encino Man
- The Flintstones
- Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks
- Iceman (1984)
- Ironmaster
- Maciste Against The Monsters
- Master of the World (1983)
- Missing Link (1988)
- Mistress of the Apes
- The Neanderthal Man
- One Million B.C.
- One Million Years B.C.
- Prehistoric Women
- Quest for Fire
- RRRrrr!!!
- Teenage Caveman
- Tyranno's Claw
- When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
- When Women Had Tails
- Year One
- Yor: The Hunter from the Future
- Boneland
- Boy Of The Painted Cave
- The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness
- Earth's Children
- Human? (1954) ("The Gnarly Man")
- A Long Time Until Now
- The Lords of Creation
- Mik's Mammoth
- Quest for Fire
- Soulmate (specifically the sixth Night World book revolves around characters who were born in the Stone Age and has flashbacks to this period that are key to the plot)
- Spear and Fang
- A Story of the Stone Age
- The Wild Way Home
- GURPS has a supplement called GURPS: Ice Age which provides rules and setting detail for early hominids. As the name implies, the main focus is on the end of the Pleistocene Epoch (when you could plausibly have Cro-Magnon humans feuding with Neanderthals). However, in typical GURPS fashion, guidence is provided from playing anything from a silly The Flintstones-like game to a gritty historical Quest for Fire-type drama.
- Wolf Packs and Winter Snow is a OSR game that translates old-school Dungeons & Dragons to a caveman setting. Neanderthals take the role of dwarfs (being short, tough and extremely resiliant), and magicians draw their spells on the walls of their sanctums instead of carrying around spellbooks. Instead of dungeons, you explore cave systems full of natural hazards and hostile predators.
- Firebringer
- The Rite of Spring (the ballet's intended setting is prehistoric Russia)
- Adventures of Dino Riki
- B.C.'s Quest for Tires
- Big Nose Freaks Out
- Bonk
- Caveman Warriors
- Chuck Rock
- Congo's Caper
- Cro-Mag Rally
- Dawn of Crafting
- Dawn of Man
- Echo: Secrets of the Lost Cavern
- Far Cry Primal
- The Flintstones video games
- Joe & Mac
- Live A Live (Pogo's story)
- Prehistorik
- Roots of Pacha
- Tail of the Sun
- Tak and the Power of Juju
- Tomba!
- Trog
- War Party
