History Main / ContemporaryCAveMan

* The titular character from the ''[[Franchise/ArchieComics Archie's Weird Mysteries]]'' special "The Archies in Jugman". He was unfrozen when a geothermal heating system was installed in Riverdale High School.

* The primarily ''ComicBook/AlphaFlight'' villain, the Master of the World, was a tribal hunter gatherer in prehistoric North America before being [[TouchedByVorlons experimented on]] by the [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens Plodex]]
* Taras Vol, a one issue character from an issue of ''ComicBook/{{Cable}}'', was an immortal caveman diner owner.

* In ''ComicBook/TheFurtherAdventuresOfIndianaJones'' #17, Indy encounters (and becomes an ally to) a tribe of modern cavemen living the Himalayas, where they worship a frozen dragon.

* There are still a number of uncontacted tribes located throughout the world that have been isolated since before written history, and thus retain much of the same practices they had many thousands of years ago. For example, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinelese_people the Sentinelese]] are estimated to have lived on their island for the past 60,000 years and still live as hunter-gatherers.
* It's not exactly 'contemporary', but there is a theory that the legends of ogres, trolls and such stem from encounters with small groups of cavemen that survived into historic times.
* There are folktales of surviving cavemen in the Caspian region. Not a lot of evidence for it, though.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': Seven and Ace confront a talkative, very polite Neanderthal named Nimrod used as a butler in the memorable episode [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E2GhostLight "Ghost Light"]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Earthbound}}'' has the Cave Boy enemy, which can be encountered just outside the prodigious Dr. Andonuts' Laboratory.

* ''VideoGame/Earthbound'' has the Cave Boy enemy, which can be encountered just outside the prodigious Dr. Andonuts' Laboratory.

* Bubba Duck from ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'', a boy Neanderthal duck brought to the present day in a time machine.

* A ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' cartoon had a caveman unfrozen from a glacier signing copies of his autobiography in a modern bookstore.

* In the ''ZooTycoon2'' expansion pack ''Extinct Animals'', you can place glaciers in exhibits to make certain animals (namely Ice Age mammals such as mastodons and saber-toothed cats) feel more comfortable in the modern period. Occasionally, this glacier will contain a frozen caveman who will gradually thaw out and then wander around the zoo as if he were any other guest. All the cavemen have ''Flintstones''-style names.

* The Cryogenic Support Group in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' includes a caveman.

* The cavemen from the Advertising/{{GEICO}} commercials, who are insulted by the company's slogan "So easy a caveman can do it", and even more with the excuse that they did not know cavemen still existed. Which is a baldfaced lie, since the first ad had the caveman being offended actually the boom operator at the shoot.

* Charlie, of the unfrozen type, in the film ''Film/{{Iceman}}''. Unlike most examples here, the results are portrayed fairly realistically.

* Krull the Eternal in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'', who [[CompositeCharacter combines elements]] of ComicBook/VandalSavage and ''{{Shazam}}'''s King Kull.

* Discussed and subverted in ''Film/TheManFromEarth'', in which [[spoiler: the main character is an immortal caveman who, having changed with the times, talks and acts like everyone else.]]