Primitive man may refer to:
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Archaic humans
A number of varieties of ''Homo'' are grouped into the broad category of archaic humans in the period that precedes and is contemporary to the emergence of the earliest early modern humans (''Homo sapiens'') around 300 ka. Omo-Kibish I (Omo I) f ...
*the
caveman stock character
*the
noble savage
A noble savage is a literary stock character who embodies the concept of the indigene, outsider, wild human, an "other" who has not been "corrupted" by civilization, and therefore symbolizes humanity's innate goodness. Besides appearing in man ...
stock character
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Primitive culture
''Primitive Culture'' is an 1871 book by Edward Burnett Tylor. In his book, Tylor debates the relationship between "primitive" societies, and "civilized" societies, a key theme in 19th century anthropological literature.
Evolutionism
Tylor's w ...
as proper name:
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''Primitive Man'' (album), a 1982 album by Icehouse
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Primitive Man (band)
Primitive Man is an American doom metal band from Denver, Colorado, composed of Ethan Lee McCarthy on vocals and guitar, Jonathan Campos on bass, and Joe Linden (who has replaced founding member Bennet Kennedy) on drums. They are known for an ...
, an American sludge metal band
They also refer to
First people
Indigenous peoples are culturally distinct ethnic groups whose members are directly descended from the earliest known inhabitants of a particular geographic region and, to some extent, maintain the language and culture of those original people ...
See also
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The Mind of Primitive Man'', a 1911 anthropology work by Franz Boas
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A Primitive Man's Career to Civilization
''A Primitive Man's Career to Civilization'' was a UK film released in 1912, directed and written by Cherry Kearton. Shot on 35mm film in silent black and white, it was distributed by WTC.
The film was produced in 1911 by the Ethnographic Soc ...
'', a 1912 UK film directed and written by Cherry Kearton
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''Primitive Man'' (journal), a peer-reviewed journal of anthropology
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Primitive (disambiguation)
Primitive may refer to:
Mathematics
* Primitive element (field theory)
* Primitive element (finite field)
* Primitive cell (crystallography)
* Primitive notion, axiomatic systems
* Primitive polynomial (disambiguation), one of two concepts
* Prim ...
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Prehistoric man (disambiguation) Prehistoric man may refer to:
*Human evolution
*The genus ''Homo''
*Archaic humans
*Any perceivedly primitive culture
*''The Prehistoric Man'', a 1924 British silent comedy film
*''Prehistoric Man'', a 1957 nonfiction book by André Leroi-Gourhan
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Human evolution
Human evolution is the evolutionary process within the history of primates that led to the emergence of ''Homo sapiens'' as a distinct species of the hominid family, which includes the great apes. This process involved the gradual development of ...
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Homo
''Homo'' () is the genus that emerged in the (otherwise extinct) genus ''Australopithecus'' that encompasses the extant species ''Homo sapiens'' ( modern humans), plus several extinct species classified as either ancestral to or closely relate ...
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Primitivism
Primitivism is a mode of aesthetic idealization that either emulates or aspires to recreate a "primitive" experience. It is also defined as a philosophical doctrine that considers "primitive" peoples as nobler than civilized peoples and was an o ...
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