We can’t be certain, but he’s very likely correct. Remember Ötzi, the “ice Man?” Lots of tattoos, possibly applied as treatment for various injuries and illnesses. Tattoos are easy and automatically travel with you. And there’s substantial evidence that any sort of body adornment was early art. And tattoos seem very suitable for migrating hunters. So it’s not a bad theory. His only error was calling them “cavemen.” Caves were convenient temporary shelters, but people of the time he’s talking about almost certainly did what other primitive wanderers did, built simple shelters.
We can’t be certain, but he’s very likely correct. Remember Ötzi, the “ice Man?” Lots of tattoos, possibly applied as treatment for various injuries and illnesses. Tattoos are easy and automatically travel with you. And there’s substantial evidence that any sort of body adornment was early art. And tattoos seem very suitable for migrating hunters. So it’s not a bad theory. His only error was calling them “cavemen.” Caves were convenient temporary shelters, but people of the time he’s talking about almost certainly did what other primitive wanderers did, built simple shelters.