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RealLife is a '''very''' downplayed example of this -- anyone with decent paleontological knowledge will be aware that obviously all known non-avian dinosaurs and most other huge reptiles went extinct '''long''' before the first hominid appeared (although there are theories that some dinosaurs survived into the Paleocene period). But during actual 1 million years BC, in the middle Pleistocene period, before the global glaciation, our ancestors had discovered primitive tools and fire while diversifying into multiple subspecies and starting to migrate from tropical Africa into Eurasia. The majority of megafauna was mammalian and while there were huge predatory flightless birds and large reptiles like turtles, crocodiles, and lizards (the closest equivalent of dinosaurs) most of them lived in the continents of South America and Australia, so early humans didn't encounter them most of the time (Well, except for the crocodiles) Granted, the majority of megafauna died out circa 11,000 BC with the end of the last ice age which forced modern evolved humans to abandon their hunter-gatherer ways and settle down with the invention of agriculture that gave birth to the first civilizations, which ends the prehistoric era with the invention of writing and marks the beginning of recorded human history.

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RealLife is a '''very''' downplayed example of this -- anyone with decent paleontological knowledge will be aware that obviously all known non-avian dinosaurs and most other huge Mesozoic reptiles went extinct '''long''' before the first hominid appeared (although there are theories that some dinosaurs survived into the Paleocene period). But during actual 1 million years BC, in the middle Pleistocene period, before the global glaciation, our ancestors had discovered primitive tools and fire while diversifying into multiple subspecies and starting to migrate from tropical Africa into Eurasia. The majority of megafauna was mammalian and while there were huge predatory flightless birds and large reptiles like turtles, crocodiles, and lizards (the closest equivalent of dinosaurs) most of them lived in the continents of South America and Australia, so early humans didn't encounter them most of the time (Well, except for the crocodiles) Granted, the majority of megafauna died out circa 11,000 BC with the end of the last ice age which forced modern evolved humans to abandon their hunter-gatherer ways and settle down with the invention of agriculture that gave birth to the first civilizations, which ends the prehistoric era with the invention of writing and marks the beginning of recorded human history.
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RealLife is a '''very''' downplayed example of this -- anyone with decent paleontological knowledge will be aware that obviously all known non-avian dinosaurs and most other huge reptiles went extinct '''long''' before the first hominid appeared (although there are theories that some dinosaurs survived into the Paleocene era). But during actual 1 million years BC, in the middle Pleistocene period, before the global glaciation, our ancestors had discovered primitive tools and fire while diversifying into multiple subspecies and starting to migrate from tropical Africa into Eurasia. The majority of megafauna was mammalian and while there were huge predatory flightless birds and large reptiles like turtles, crocodiles, and lizards (the closest equivalent of dinosaurs) most of them lived in the continents of South America and Australia, so early humans didn't encounter them most of the time (Well, except for the crocodiles) Granted, the majority of megafauna died out circa 11,000 BC with the end of the last ice age which forced modern evolved humans to abandon their hunter-gatherer ways and settle down with the invention of agriculture that gave birth to the first civilizations, which ends the prehistoric era with the invention of writing and marks the beginning of recorded human history.

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RealLife is a '''very''' downplayed example of this -- anyone with decent paleontological knowledge will be aware that obviously all known non-avian dinosaurs and most other huge reptiles went extinct '''long''' before the first hominid appeared (although there are theories that some dinosaurs survived into the Paleocene era).period). But during actual 1 million years BC, in the middle Pleistocene period, before the global glaciation, our ancestors had discovered primitive tools and fire while diversifying into multiple subspecies and starting to migrate from tropical Africa into Eurasia. The majority of megafauna was mammalian and while there were huge predatory flightless birds and large reptiles like turtles, crocodiles, and lizards (the closest equivalent of dinosaurs) most of them lived in the continents of South America and Australia, so early humans didn't encounter them most of the time (Well, except for the crocodiles) Granted, the majority of megafauna died out circa 11,000 BC with the end of the last ice age which forced modern evolved humans to abandon their hunter-gatherer ways and settle down with the invention of agriculture that gave birth to the first civilizations, which ends the prehistoric era with the invention of writing and marks the beginning of recorded human history.
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This setting is nowadays a DeadHorseTrope. If there's a specific year it died, it would have to be 1981, in which it suffered the blow of two [[GenreKiller Genre-Killers]]. One was ''Film/QuestForFire'', it being a much more realistic take on the lives of prehistoric humans, and the other was ''Film/{{Caveman}}'', it being a silly parody of the "cavemen and dinosaurs" genre. Between those two films, fur-clad cavemen battling stop-motion dinosaurs became something that audiences could no longer take seriously. Insofar as this setting turns up in media after 1981, it's always as either a parody of or homage to older works. And if it wasn't already dead in 1981, it was further killed a few years later with the advent of Dinosaur Renaissance media like ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'' and ''Film/JurassicPark'', which endeavored to portray dinosaurs with more scientific accuracy and certainly did away with any notion of them living alongside cavepeople, by establishing any mammals that lived with the dinosaurs as not more than [[MeekMesozoicMammal small, scurrying creatures]]. The popularization of the idea that a meteor impact caused the extinction of the dinosaurs may have further contributed to this trope's decline, as did the growing popularity of the last ice age with its large prehistoric mammals (especially [[MammothsMeanIceAge mammoths]] and [[SnowySabretooths saber-toothed cats]]) as a stark contrast to the dinosaurs and other reptiles which are usually associated with tropical or warmer climates.

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This setting is nowadays a DeadHorseTrope. If there's a specific year it died, it would have to be 1981, in which it suffered the blow of two [[GenreKiller Genre-Killers]]. One was ''Film/QuestForFire'', it being a much more realistic take on the lives of prehistoric humans, and the other was ''Film/{{Caveman}}'', it being a silly parody of the "cavemen and dinosaurs" genre. Between those two films, fur-clad cavemen battling stop-motion dinosaurs became something that audiences could no longer take seriously. Insofar as this setting turns up in media after 1981, it's always as either a parody of or homage to older works. And if it wasn't already dead in 1981, it was further killed a few years later with the advent of Dinosaur Renaissance media like ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'' and ''Film/JurassicPark'', which endeavored to portray dinosaurs with more scientific accuracy and certainly did away with any notion of them living alongside cavepeople, by establishing any mammals that lived with the dinosaurs as not more than [[MeekMesozoicMammal small, scurrying creatures]]. The popularization of the idea that a meteor impact caused the extinction of the dinosaurs may have further contributed to this trope's decline, as did the growing popularity of the last ice age with its large prehistoric mammals (especially [[MammothsMeanIceAge mammoths]] and [[SnowySabretooths [[SnowySabertooths saber-toothed cats]]) as a stark contrast to the dinosaurs and other reptiles which are usually associated with tropical or warmer climates.

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This setting is nowadays a DeadHorseTrope. If there's a specific year it died, it would have to be 1981, in which it suffered the blow of two [[GenreKiller Genre-Killers]]. One was ''Film/QuestForFire'', it being a much more realistic take on the lives of prehistoric humans, and the other was ''Film/{{Caveman}}'', it being a silly parody of the "cavemen and dinosaurs" genre. Between those two films, fur-clad cavemen battling stop-motion dinosaurs became something that audiences could no longer take seriously. Insofar as this setting turns up in media after 1981, it's always as either a parody of or homage to older works. And if it wasn't already dead in 1981, it was further killed a few years later with the advent of Dinosaur Renaissance media like ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'' and ''Film/JurassicPark'', which endeavored to portray dinosaurs with more scientific accuracy and certainly did away with any notion of them living alongside cavepeople, by establishing any mammals that lived with the dinosaurs as not more than [[MeekMesozoicMammal small, scurrying creatures]]. The popularization of the idea that a meteor impact caused the extinction of the dinosaurs may have further contributed to this trope's decline, as did the growing popularity of the last ice age with its large prehistoric mammals (especially [[MammothsMeanIceAge mammoths]]) as a stark contrast to the dinosaurs and other reptiles which are usually associated with tropical or warmer climates.

RealLife is a '''very''' downplayed example of this -- anyone with decent paleontological knowledge will be aware that obviously all known non-avian dinosaurs and most other huge reptiles went extinct '''long''' before the first hominid appeared (although there are theories that some dinosaurs survived into the Paleocene era). But during actual 1 million years BC, in the middle Pleistoce period, before the global glaciation, our ancestors had discovered primitive tools and fire while diversifying into multiple subspecies and starting to migrate from tropical Africa into Eurasia. The majority of megafauna was mammalian and while there were huge predatory flightless birds and large reptiles like turtles, crocodiles, and lizards (the closest equivalent of dinosaurs) most of them lived in the continents of South America and Australia, so early humans didn't encounter them most of the time (Well, except for the crocodiles) Granted, the majority of megafauna died out circa 11,000 BC with the end of the last ice age which forced modern evolved humans to abandon their hunter-gatherer ways and settle down with the invention of agriculture that gave birth to the first civilizations, which ends the prehistoric era with the invention of writing and marks the beginning of recorded human history.

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This setting is nowadays a DeadHorseTrope. If there's a specific year it died, it would have to be 1981, in which it suffered the blow of two [[GenreKiller Genre-Killers]]. One was ''Film/QuestForFire'', it being a much more realistic take on the lives of prehistoric humans, and the other was ''Film/{{Caveman}}'', it being a silly parody of the "cavemen and dinosaurs" genre. Between those two films, fur-clad cavemen battling stop-motion dinosaurs became something that audiences could no longer take seriously. Insofar as this setting turns up in media after 1981, it's always as either a parody of or homage to older works. And if it wasn't already dead in 1981, it was further killed a few years later with the advent of Dinosaur Renaissance media like ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'' and ''Film/JurassicPark'', which endeavored to portray dinosaurs with more scientific accuracy and certainly did away with any notion of them living alongside cavepeople, by establishing any mammals that lived with the dinosaurs as not more than [[MeekMesozoicMammal small, scurrying creatures]]. The popularization of the idea that a meteor impact caused the extinction of the dinosaurs may have further contributed to this trope's decline, as did the growing popularity of the last ice age with its large prehistoric mammals (especially [[MammothsMeanIceAge mammoths]]) mammoths]] and [[SnowySabretooths saber-toothed cats]]) as a stark contrast to the dinosaurs and other reptiles which are usually associated with tropical or warmer climates.

RealLife is a '''very''' downplayed example of this -- anyone with decent paleontological knowledge will be aware that obviously all known non-avian dinosaurs and most other huge reptiles went extinct '''long''' before the first hominid appeared (although there are theories that some dinosaurs survived into the Paleocene era). But during actual 1 million years BC, in the middle Pleistoce Pleistocene period, before the global glaciation, our ancestors had discovered primitive tools and fire while diversifying into multiple subspecies and starting to migrate from tropical Africa into Eurasia. The majority of megafauna was mammalian and while there were huge predatory flightless birds and large reptiles like turtles, crocodiles, and lizards (the closest equivalent of dinosaurs) most of them lived in the continents of South America and Australia, so early humans didn't encounter them most of the time (Well, except for the crocodiles) Granted, the majority of megafauna died out circa 11,000 BC with the end of the last ice age which forced modern evolved humans to abandon their hunter-gatherer ways and settle down with the invention of agriculture that gave birth to the first civilizations, which ends the prehistoric era with the invention of writing and marks the beginning of recorded human history.



* SnowySabertooths
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* ''ComicBook/MonicasGang'': The ''Pitheco'''s stories are largely influenced by this setting and are homages to several of these stories, starring the titular caveman (whose full name is "''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Man Pithecanthropus erectus]]'' [[SesquipedalianSmith da Silva]]" [[note]]Silva being the Brazilian equivalent of Smith[[/note]]). He lives in a prehistoric village called Lem (the name itself being a parody of Lemuria) in a world of barren soil with volcanoes in the background, in which humans coexist with non-avian dinosaurs and other prehistoric beasts and live in caves. Older stories from Pitheco were even more focused on fantasy elements, featuring {{Cyclops}}, wizards and other fantastical creatures. This also applies to the ''Horace'' stories, a mellow and philosophical vegetarian baby ''T. rex'' who [[AscendedExtra started as a character in the Pitheco strips]] and interacts with several other animals from different periods.

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* ''ComicBook/MonicasGang'': The ''Pitheco'''s stories are largely influenced by this setting and are homages to several of these stories, the genre, starring the titular caveman (whose full name is "''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Man Pithecanthropus erectus]]'' [[SesquipedalianSmith da Silva]]" [[note]]Silva being the Brazilian equivalent of Smith[[/note]]). He lives in a prehistoric village called Lem (the name itself being a parody of Lemuria) in a world of barren soil with volcanoes in the background, in which humans coexist with non-avian dinosaurs and other prehistoric beasts and live in caves. Older stories from Pitheco were even more focused on fantasy elements, featuring {{Cyclops}}, wizards and other fantastical creatures. This also applies to the ''Horace'' stories, a mellow and philosophical vegetarian baby ''T. rex'' who [[AscendedExtra started as a character in the Pitheco strips]] and interacts with several other animals from different periods.
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* ''ComicBook/MonicasGang'': The ''Pitheco'''s stories are largely influenced by this setting and are homages to several of these stories, starring the titular caveman (whose full name is "''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Man Pithecanthropus erectus]]'' [[SesquipedalianSmith da Silva]]" [[note]]Silva being the Brazilian equivalent of Smith[[/note]]). He lives in a pre-historic village called Lem (the name itself being a parody of Lemuria) in a world of barren soil with volcanoes in the background, in which humans coexist with non-avian dinosaurs and other prehistoric beasts and live in caves. Older stories from Pitheco were even more focused on fantasy elements, featuring {{Cyclops}}, wizards and other fantastical creatures. This also applies to the ''Horace'' stories, a mellow, vegetarian juvenile ''T. rex'' who interacts with several other animals from different periods.

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* ''ComicBook/MonicasGang'': The ''Pitheco'''s stories are largely influenced by this setting and are homages to several of these stories, starring the titular caveman (whose full name is "''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Man Pithecanthropus erectus]]'' [[SesquipedalianSmith da Silva]]" [[note]]Silva being the Brazilian equivalent of Smith[[/note]]). He lives in a pre-historic prehistoric village called Lem (the name itself being a parody of Lemuria) in a world of barren soil with volcanoes in the background, in which humans coexist with non-avian dinosaurs and other prehistoric beasts and live in caves. Older stories from Pitheco were even more focused on fantasy elements, featuring {{Cyclops}}, wizards and other fantastical creatures. This also applies to the ''Horace'' stories, a mellow, mellow and philosophical vegetarian juvenile baby ''T. rex'' who [[AscendedExtra started as a character in the Pitheco strips]] and interacts with several other animals from different periods.
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* ''ComicBook/MonicasGang'': ''Pitheco'' stories are largely influenced by this setting and are homages to several of these stories, starring a caveman whose full name is "''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Man Pithecanthropus erectus]]'' [[SesquipedalianSmith da Silva]]" [[note]]Silva being the Brazilian equivalent of Smith[[/note]]. He lives in a pre-historic village called Lem (the name itself being a parody of Lemuria) in a world of barren soil with volcanoes in the background, in which humans coexist with dinosaurs and live in caves. Older stories from Pitheco were even more focused on fantasy elements, featuring {{Cyclops}}, wizards and other fantastical creatures.

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* ''ComicBook/MonicasGang'': ''Pitheco'' The ''Pitheco'''s stories are largely influenced by this setting and are homages to several of these stories, starring a the titular caveman whose (whose full name is "''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Man Pithecanthropus erectus]]'' [[SesquipedalianSmith da Silva]]" [[note]]Silva being the Brazilian equivalent of Smith[[/note]]. Smith[[/note]]). He lives in a pre-historic village called Lem (the name itself being a parody of Lemuria) in a world of barren soil with volcanoes in the background, in which humans coexist with non-avian dinosaurs and other prehistoric beasts and live in caves. Older stories from Pitheco were even more focused on fantasy elements, featuring {{Cyclops}}, wizards and other fantastical creatures. This also applies to the ''Horace'' stories, a mellow, vegetarian juvenile ''T. rex'' who interacts with several other animals from different periods.
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* ''TabletopGame/Planegea'': Is essentially the prehistory of a StandardFantasySetting like ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms''. Humans and early versions of other fantasy races survive in a primordial world that is still in the process of being formed.
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!This trope is [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=16768606850.82249500 under discussion]] in the Administrivia/TropeRepairShop.
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* ''Film/RRRrrr'': There's a human tribe where ''everyone'' is named "Pierre" ("Peter" in French, although the joke is that it also means "stone"). All prehistorical animals have sabertooth, somehow.

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* ''Film/QuestForFire'', one of the more accurate depictions of the Stone Age, focusing on a group of neanderthals encountering cro-magnons for the first time. In a piece of truly inspired casting, Creator/RonPerlman was one of the neanderthals.

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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E1AnUnearthlyChild An Unearthly Child]]", the first story of the original series, sees the characters travel to prehistory and encounter a tribe of cannibalistic cavemen looking for the secret of fire. No dinosaurs, however.

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"[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E1AnUnearthlyChild An Unearthly Child]]", the first story of the original series, sees the characters travel to prehistory and encounter a tribe of cannibalistic cavemen looking for the secret of fire. No dinosaurs, however.however.
** The back story to "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E2DoctorWhoAndTheSilurians Doctor Who and the Silurians]]" is that the Silurians domesticated dinosaurs and enslaved early hominids, despite the Silurian era being hundreds of millions of years too early for ''either'' of these, or indeed anything resembling LizardFolk. "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E3TheSeaDevils The Sea Devils]]" has the Doctor claim that this is "a complete misnomer" (and never mind that he used it at the time) and they should actually be "Eocenes", which is ... better, but not by much (you can fudge the dinosaurs surviving somehow, and at least primates existed, if not hominids).
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These settings usually consist primarily of barren, rocky landscapes, usually dominated by the looming silhouettes of barren peaks or ever-smoking volcanoes. Breaks in this dominant terrain will almost invariably consist of dense jungles, primordial swamps, bubbling tar pits and, more occasionally, barren fields of ice and snow. The fauna will be a grab-bag of Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic species, with saber-toothed tigers and woolly mammoths rubbing shoulders with dinosaurs and sail-backed reptiles while giant insects buzz past, pterosaurs wheel overhead and giant marine reptiles rule the seas. Given the low priority scientific realism plays in these stories, the beasts will often sport any number of unrealistic or outdated traits -- tail-dragging dinosaurs still turn up from time to time, and don't expect to see a feather on any one of them. Oftentimes, these will be full-on {{Prehistoric Monster}}s more similar to dragons and other fantastic beasts than to anything that ever lived on Earth.

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These settings usually consist primarily of barren, rocky landscapes, usually dominated by the looming silhouettes of barren peaks or ever-smoking volcanoes. Breaks in this dominant terrain will almost invariably consist of dense jungles, primordial swamps, and bubbling tar pits and, more pits. More occasionally, barren fields of ice and snow.snow may also turn up. The fauna will be a grab-bag of Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic species, with saber-toothed tigers and woolly mammoths rubbing shoulders with dinosaurs and sail-backed reptiles while giant insects buzz past, pterosaurs wheel overhead and giant marine reptiles rule the seas. Given the low priority scientific realism plays in these stories, the beasts will often sport any number of unrealistic or outdated traits -- tail-dragging dinosaurs still turn up from time to time, and don't expect to see a feather on any one of them. Oftentimes, these will be full-on {{Prehistoric Monster}}s more similar to dragons and other fantastic beasts than to anything that ever lived on Earth.
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This setting is nowadays a DeadHorseTrope. If there's a specific year it died, it would have to be 1981, in which it suffered the blow of two [[GenreKiller Genre-Killers]]. One was ''Film/QuestForFire'', it being a much more realistic take on the lives of prehistoric humans, and the other was ''Film/{{Caveman}}'', it being a silly parody of the "cavemen and dinosaurs" genre. Between those two films, fur-clad cavemen battling stop-motion dinosaurs became something that audiences could no longer take seriously. Insofar as this setting turns up in media after 1981, it's always as either a parody of or homage to older works. And if it wasn't already dead in 1981, it was further killed a few years later with the advent of Dinosaur Renaissance media like ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'' and ''Film/JurassicPark'', which endeavored to portray dinosaurs with more scientific accuracy and certainly did away with any notion of them living alongside cavepeople, with any mammals that lived with the dinosaurs being [[MeekMesozoicMammal small, scurrying creatures]]. The popularization of the idea that a meteor impact caused the extinction of the dinosaurs may have further contributed to this trope's decline, as did the growing popularity of the last ice age with its large prehistoric mammals (especially [[MammothsMeanIceAge mammoths]]) as a stark contrast to the dinosaurs and other reptiles which are usually associated with tropical or warmer climates.

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This setting is nowadays a DeadHorseTrope. If there's a specific year it died, it would have to be 1981, in which it suffered the blow of two [[GenreKiller Genre-Killers]]. One was ''Film/QuestForFire'', it being a much more realistic take on the lives of prehistoric humans, and the other was ''Film/{{Caveman}}'', it being a silly parody of the "cavemen and dinosaurs" genre. Between those two films, fur-clad cavemen battling stop-motion dinosaurs became something that audiences could no longer take seriously. Insofar as this setting turns up in media after 1981, it's always as either a parody of or homage to older works. And if it wasn't already dead in 1981, it was further killed a few years later with the advent of Dinosaur Renaissance media like ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'' and ''Film/JurassicPark'', which endeavored to portray dinosaurs with more scientific accuracy and certainly did away with any notion of them living alongside cavepeople, with by establishing any mammals that lived with the dinosaurs being as not more than [[MeekMesozoicMammal small, scurrying creatures]]. The popularization of the idea that a meteor impact caused the extinction of the dinosaurs may have further contributed to this trope's decline, as did the growing popularity of the last ice age with its large prehistoric mammals (especially [[MammothsMeanIceAge mammoths]]) as a stark contrast to the dinosaurs and other reptiles which are usually associated with tropical or warmer climates.
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This setting is nowadays a DeadHorseTrope. If there's a specific year it died, it would have to be 1981, in which it suffered the blow of two [[GenreKiller Genre-Killers]]. One was ''Film/QuestForFire'', it being a much more realistic take on the lives of prehistoric humans, and the other was ''Film/{{Caveman}}'', it being a silly parody of the "cavemen and dinosaurs" genre. Between those two films, fur-clad cavemen battling stop-motion dinosaurs became something that audiences could no longer take seriously. Insofar as this setting turns up in media after 1981, it's always as either a parody of or homage to older works. And if it wasn't already dead in 1981, it was further killed a few years later with the advent of Dinosaur Renaissance media like ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'' and ''Film/JurassicPark'', which endeavored to portray dinosaurs with more scientific accuracy and certainly did away with any notion of them living alongside cavepeople, with any mammals that lived with them being [[MeekMesozoicMammal small, scurrying creatures]]. The popularization of the idea that a meteor impact caused the extinction of the dinosaurs may have further contributed to this trope's decline, as did the growing popularity of the last ice age with its large prehistoric mammals (especially [[MammothsMeanIceAge mammoths]]) as a stark contrast to the dinosaurs and other reptiles which are usually associated with tropical or warmer climates.

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This setting is nowadays a DeadHorseTrope. If there's a specific year it died, it would have to be 1981, in which it suffered the blow of two [[GenreKiller Genre-Killers]]. One was ''Film/QuestForFire'', it being a much more realistic take on the lives of prehistoric humans, and the other was ''Film/{{Caveman}}'', it being a silly parody of the "cavemen and dinosaurs" genre. Between those two films, fur-clad cavemen battling stop-motion dinosaurs became something that audiences could no longer take seriously. Insofar as this setting turns up in media after 1981, it's always as either a parody of or homage to older works. And if it wasn't already dead in 1981, it was further killed a few years later with the advent of Dinosaur Renaissance media like ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'' and ''Film/JurassicPark'', which endeavored to portray dinosaurs with more scientific accuracy and certainly did away with any notion of them living alongside cavepeople, with any mammals that lived with them the dinosaurs being [[MeekMesozoicMammal small, scurrying creatures]]. The popularization of the idea that a meteor impact caused the extinction of the dinosaurs may have further contributed to this trope's decline, as did the growing popularity of the last ice age with its large prehistoric mammals (especially [[MammothsMeanIceAge mammoths]]) as a stark contrast to the dinosaurs and other reptiles which are usually associated with tropical or warmer climates.
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This setting is nowadays a DeadHorseTrope. If there's a specific year it died, it would have to be 1981, in which it suffered the blow of two [[GenreKiller Genre-Killers]]. One was ''Film/QuestForFire'', it being a much more realistic take on the lives of prehistoric humans, and the other was ''Film/{{Caveman}}'', it being a silly parody of the "cavemen and dinosaurs" genre. Between those two films, fur-clad cavemen battling stop-motion dinosaurs became something that audiences could no longer take seriously. Insofar as this setting turns up in media after 1981, it's always as either a parody of or homage to older works. And if it wasn't already dead in 1981, it was further killed a few years later with the advent of Dinosaur Renaissance media like ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'' and ''Film/JurassicPark'', which endeavored to portray dinosaurs with more scientific accuracy and certainly did away with any notion of them living alongside cavepeople. The popularization of the idea that a meteor impact caused the extinction of the dinosaurs may have further contributed to this trope's decline, as did the growing popularity of the last ice age with its large prehistoric mammals (especially [[MammothsMeanIceAge mammoths]]) as a stark contrast to the dinosaurs and other reptiles which are usually associated with tropical or warmer climates.

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This setting is nowadays a DeadHorseTrope. If there's a specific year it died, it would have to be 1981, in which it suffered the blow of two [[GenreKiller Genre-Killers]]. One was ''Film/QuestForFire'', it being a much more realistic take on the lives of prehistoric humans, and the other was ''Film/{{Caveman}}'', it being a silly parody of the "cavemen and dinosaurs" genre. Between those two films, fur-clad cavemen battling stop-motion dinosaurs became something that audiences could no longer take seriously. Insofar as this setting turns up in media after 1981, it's always as either a parody of or homage to older works. And if it wasn't already dead in 1981, it was further killed a few years later with the advent of Dinosaur Renaissance media like ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'' and ''Film/JurassicPark'', which endeavored to portray dinosaurs with more scientific accuracy and certainly did away with any notion of them living alongside cavepeople.cavepeople, with any mammals that lived with them being [[MeekMesozoicMammal small, scurrying creatures]]. The popularization of the idea that a meteor impact caused the extinction of the dinosaurs may have further contributed to this trope's decline, as did the growing popularity of the last ice age with its large prehistoric mammals (especially [[MammothsMeanIceAge mammoths]]) as a stark contrast to the dinosaurs and other reptiles which are usually associated with tropical or warmer climates.
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This setting is nowadays a DeadHorseTrope. If there's a specific year it died, it would have to be 1981, in which it suffered the blow of two [[GenreKiller Genre-Killers]]. One was ''Film/QuestForFire'', it being a much more realistic take on the lives of prehistoric humans, and the other was ''Film/{{Caveman}}'', it being a silly parody of the "cavemen and dinosaurs" genre. Between those two films, fur-clad cavemen battling stop-motion dinosaurs became something that audiences could no longer take seriously. Insofar as this setting turns up in media after 1981, it's always as either a parody of or homage to older works. And if it wasn't already dead in 1981, it was further killed a few years later with the advent of Dinosaur Renaissance media like ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'' and ''Film/JurassicPark'', which endeavored to portray dinosaurs with more scientific accuracy and certainly did away with any notion of them living alongside cavepeople. The popularization of the idea that a meteor impact caused the extinction of the dinosaurs may have further contributed to this trope's decline, as did the growing popularity of associating large prehistoric mammals with the last ice age (especially [[MammothsMeanIceAge mammoths]]) as a stark contrast to the usually tropics-dwelling dinosaurs.

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This setting is nowadays a DeadHorseTrope. If there's a specific year it died, it would have to be 1981, in which it suffered the blow of two [[GenreKiller Genre-Killers]]. One was ''Film/QuestForFire'', it being a much more realistic take on the lives of prehistoric humans, and the other was ''Film/{{Caveman}}'', it being a silly parody of the "cavemen and dinosaurs" genre. Between those two films, fur-clad cavemen battling stop-motion dinosaurs became something that audiences could no longer take seriously. Insofar as this setting turns up in media after 1981, it's always as either a parody of or homage to older works. And if it wasn't already dead in 1981, it was further killed a few years later with the advent of Dinosaur Renaissance media like ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'' and ''Film/JurassicPark'', which endeavored to portray dinosaurs with more scientific accuracy and certainly did away with any notion of them living alongside cavepeople. The popularization of the idea that a meteor impact caused the extinction of the dinosaurs may have further contributed to this trope's decline, as did the growing popularity of associating the last ice age with its large prehistoric mammals with the last ice age (especially [[MammothsMeanIceAge mammoths]]) as a stark contrast to the dinosaurs and other reptiles which are usually tropics-dwelling dinosaurs.
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This setting is nowadays a DeadHorseTrope. If there's a specific year it died, it would have to be 1981, in which it suffered the blow of two [[GenreKiller Genre-Killers]]. One was ''Film/QuestForFire'', it being a much more realistic take on the lives of prehistoric humans, and the other was ''Film/{{Caveman}}'', it being a silly parody of the "cavemen and dinosaurs" genre. Between those two films, fur-clad cavemen battling stop-motion dinosaurs became something that audiences could no longer take seriously. Insofar as this setting turns up in media after 1981, it's always as either a parody of or homage to older works. And if it wasn't already dead in 1981, it was further killed a few years later with the advent of Dinosaur Renaissance media like ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'' and ''Film/JurassicPark'', which endeavored to portray dinosaurs with more scientific accuracy and certainly did away with any notion of them living alongside cavepeople. The popularization of the idea that a meteor impact caused the extinction of the dinosaurs may have further contributed to this trope's decline, as did the growing popularity of associating large prehistoric mammals with the last ice age as a stark contrast to the usually tropics-dwelling dinosaurs.

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This setting is nowadays a DeadHorseTrope. If there's a specific year it died, it would have to be 1981, in which it suffered the blow of two [[GenreKiller Genre-Killers]]. One was ''Film/QuestForFire'', it being a much more realistic take on the lives of prehistoric humans, and the other was ''Film/{{Caveman}}'', it being a silly parody of the "cavemen and dinosaurs" genre. Between those two films, fur-clad cavemen battling stop-motion dinosaurs became something that audiences could no longer take seriously. Insofar as this setting turns up in media after 1981, it's always as either a parody of or homage to older works. And if it wasn't already dead in 1981, it was further killed a few years later with the advent of Dinosaur Renaissance media like ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'' and ''Film/JurassicPark'', which endeavored to portray dinosaurs with more scientific accuracy and certainly did away with any notion of them living alongside cavepeople. The popularization of the idea that a meteor impact caused the extinction of the dinosaurs may have further contributed to this trope's decline, as did the growing popularity of associating large prehistoric mammals with the last ice age (especially [[MammothsMeanIceAge mammoths]]) as a stark contrast to the usually tropics-dwelling dinosaurs.
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This setting is nowadays a DeadHorseTrope. If there's a specific year it died, it would have to be 1981, in which it suffered the blow of two [[GenreKiller Genre-Killers]]. One was ''Film/QuestForFire'', it being a much more realistic take on the lives of prehistoric humans, and the other was ''Film/{{Caveman}}'', it being a silly parody of the "cavemen and dinosaurs" genre. Between those two films, fur-clad cavemen battling stop-motion dinosaurs became something that audiences could no longer take seriously. Insofar as this setting turns up in media after 1981, it's always as either a parody of or homage to older works. And if it wasn't already dead in 1981, it was further killed a few years later with the advent of Dinosaur Renaissance media like ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'' and ''Film/JurassicPark'', which endeavored to portray dinosaurs with more scientific accuracy and certainly did away with any notion of them living alongside cavepeople. The popularization of the idea that a meteor impact caused the extinction of the dinosaurs may have further contributed to this trope's decline.

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This setting is nowadays a DeadHorseTrope. If there's a specific year it died, it would have to be 1981, in which it suffered the blow of two [[GenreKiller Genre-Killers]]. One was ''Film/QuestForFire'', it being a much more realistic take on the lives of prehistoric humans, and the other was ''Film/{{Caveman}}'', it being a silly parody of the "cavemen and dinosaurs" genre. Between those two films, fur-clad cavemen battling stop-motion dinosaurs became something that audiences could no longer take seriously. Insofar as this setting turns up in media after 1981, it's always as either a parody of or homage to older works. And if it wasn't already dead in 1981, it was further killed a few years later with the advent of Dinosaur Renaissance media like ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'' and ''Film/JurassicPark'', which endeavored to portray dinosaurs with more scientific accuracy and certainly did away with any notion of them living alongside cavepeople. The popularization of the idea that a meteor impact caused the extinction of the dinosaurs may have further contributed to this trope's decline.
decline, as did the growing popularity of associating large prehistoric mammals with the last ice age as a stark contrast to the usually tropics-dwelling dinosaurs.
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This setting is nowadays a DeadHorseTrope. If there's a specific year it died, it would have to be 1981, in which it suffered the blow of two [[GenreKiller Genre-Killers]]. One was ''Film/QuestForFire'', it being a much more realistic take on the lives of prehistoric humans, and the other was ''Film/{{Caveman}}'', it being a silly parody of the "cavemen and dinosaurs" genre. Between those two films, fur-clad cavemen battling stop-motion dinosaurs became something that audiences could no longer take seriously. Insofar as this setting turns up in media after 1981, it's always as either a parody of or homage to older works. And if it wasn't already dead in 1981, it was further killed a few years later with the advent of Dinosaur Renaissance media like ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'' and ''Film/JurassicPark'', which endeavored to portray dinosaurs with more scientific accuracy and certainly did away with any notion of them living alongside cavepeople.

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This setting is nowadays a DeadHorseTrope. If there's a specific year it died, it would have to be 1981, in which it suffered the blow of two [[GenreKiller Genre-Killers]]. One was ''Film/QuestForFire'', it being a much more realistic take on the lives of prehistoric humans, and the other was ''Film/{{Caveman}}'', it being a silly parody of the "cavemen and dinosaurs" genre. Between those two films, fur-clad cavemen battling stop-motion dinosaurs became something that audiences could no longer take seriously. Insofar as this setting turns up in media after 1981, it's always as either a parody of or homage to older works. And if it wasn't already dead in 1981, it was further killed a few years later with the advent of Dinosaur Renaissance media like ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'' and ''Film/JurassicPark'', which endeavored to portray dinosaurs with more scientific accuracy and certainly did away with any notion of them living alongside cavepeople.
cavepeople. The popularization of the idea that a meteor impact caused the extinction of the dinosaurs may have further contributed to this trope's decline.
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* ''Film/TyrannosClaw'' is a Korean take on the genre, set in the Jeulmun pottery period with most of the film revolving around a cavemen tribe worshipping a T-Rex as their "God". Plenty of prehistoric monsters appears as well, including a pterodactyl trying to feed the heroes to it's young and a friendly triceratops.
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* ''Series/LandOHands'': The titular land is a prehistoric world where cavepeople live with dinosaurs and ice age animals... that are made with BareHandedPuppetry.
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The days when gruff, thick-browed, club-wielding cavemen and [[NubileSavage sexy cavewomen]] in body-baring [[FurBikini fur teddies]] roamed the earth alongside [[AnachronismStew non-avian dinosaurs]]. Most humans were of low intelligence and [[HulkSpeak communicated primarily in grunts]], but this didn't stop them from inventing a sophisticated system of BambooTechnology, most of which incorporated rocks, sinews, and [[DomesticatedDinosaurs small dinosaurs]] who really didn't seem to mind the fact that they'd been locked under a counter and forced to serve as a primitive garbage disposal for the vast majority of their waking lives. ("[[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones It's a living,]]" after all...) It's not uncommon for various versions of prehistoric humans, such as apes still barely down from the trees, brutal {{Frazetta M|an}}en, mostly modern-looking tribal people and early agriculturalists experimenting with things like "wheels" and "fire" and "bronze" to share the world, variedly coexisting and fighting with one another. Even less realistic settings than usual can include LizardFolk and SnakePeople, usually as shared antagonists for the various humans and near-humans.

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The days when gruff, thick-browed, club-wielding cavemen and [[NubileSavage sexy cavewomen]] in body-baring [[FurBikini fur teddies]] roamed the earth alongside [[AnachronismStew non-avian dinosaurs]]. Most humans were of low intelligence and [[HulkSpeak communicated primarily in grunts]], but this didn't stop them from inventing a sophisticated system of BambooTechnology, most of which incorporated rocks, sinews, and [[DomesticatedDinosaurs small dinosaurs]] who really didn't seem to mind the fact that they'd been locked under a counter and forced to serve as a primitive garbage disposal for the vast majority of their waking lives. ("[[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones It's a living,]]" after all...) It's not uncommon for various versions of prehistoric humans, such as apes still barely down from the trees, brutal {{Frazetta M|an}}en, mostly modern-looking tribal people and early agriculturalists experimenting with things like "wheels" and "fire" and "bronze" "bronze", to share the world, variedly coexisting and fighting with one another. Even less realistic settings than usual can include LizardFolk and SnakePeople, usually as shared antagonists for the various humans and near-humans.
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The days when gruff, thick-browed, club-wielding cavemen and [[NubileSavage sexy cavewomen]] in body-baring [[FurBikini fur teddies]] roamed the earth alongside [[AnachronismStew non-avian dinosaurs]]. Most humans were of low intelligence and [[HulkSpeak communicated primarily in grunts]], but this didn't stop them from inventing a sophisticated system of BambooTechnology, most of which incorporated rocks, sinews, and [[DomesticatedDinosaurs small dinosaurs]] who really didn't seem to mind the fact that they'd been locked under a counter and forced to serve as a primitive garbage disposal for the vast majority of their waking lives. ("[[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones It's a living,]]" after all...) It's not uncommon for various versions of prehistoric humans, such as apes still barely down from the trees, brutal {{Frazetta M|an}}en, mostly modern-looking tribal people and early agriculturalists experimenting with things like "wheels" and "fire" and "bronze", to share the world, variedly coexisting and fighting with one another. Even less realistic settings than usual can include LizardFolk and SnakePeople, usually as shared antagonists for the various humans and near-humans.

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The days when gruff, thick-browed, club-wielding cavemen and [[NubileSavage sexy cavewomen]] in body-baring [[FurBikini fur teddies]] roamed the earth alongside [[AnachronismStew non-avian dinosaurs]]. Most humans were of low intelligence and [[HulkSpeak communicated primarily in grunts]], but this didn't stop them from inventing a sophisticated system of BambooTechnology, most of which incorporated rocks, sinews, and [[DomesticatedDinosaurs small dinosaurs]] who really didn't seem to mind the fact that they'd been locked under a counter and forced to serve as a primitive garbage disposal for the vast majority of their waking lives. ("[[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones It's a living,]]" after all...) It's not uncommon for various versions of prehistoric humans, such as apes still barely down from the trees, brutal {{Frazetta M|an}}en, mostly modern-looking tribal people and early agriculturalists experimenting with things like "wheels" and "fire" and "bronze", "bronze" to share the world, variedly coexisting and fighting with one another. Even less realistic settings than usual can include LizardFolk and SnakePeople, usually as shared antagonists for the various humans and near-humans.
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RealLife is a '''very''' downplayed example of this -- anyone with decent paleontological knowledge will be aware that obviously all known non-avian dinosaurs and most other huge reptiles went extinct '''long''' before the first hominid appeared, (although there are theories that some dinosaurs survived into the Paleocene era). But during actual 1 million years BC, in the middle Pleistoce period, before the global glaciation, our ancestors had discovered primitive tools and fire while diversifying into multiple subspecies and starting to migrate from tropical Africa into Eurasia. The majority of megafauna was mammalian and while there were huge predatory flightless birds and large reptiles like turtles, crocodiles, and lizards (the closest equivalent of dinosaurs) most of them lived in the continents of South America and Australia, so early humans didn't encounter them most of the time (Well, except for the crocodiles) Granted, the majority of megafauna died out circa 11,000 BC with the end of the last ice age which forced modern evolved humans to abandon their hunter-gatherer ways and settle down with the invention of agriculture that gave birth to the first civilizations, which ends the prehistoric era with the invention of writing and marks the beginning of recorded human history.

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RealLife is a '''very''' downplayed example of this -- anyone with decent paleontological knowledge will be aware that obviously all known non-avian dinosaurs and most other huge reptiles went extinct '''long''' before the first hominid appeared, appeared (although there are theories that some dinosaurs survived into the Paleocene era). But during actual 1 million years BC, in the middle Pleistoce period, before the global glaciation, our ancestors had discovered primitive tools and fire while diversifying into multiple subspecies and starting to migrate from tropical Africa into Eurasia. The majority of megafauna was mammalian and while there were huge predatory flightless birds and large reptiles like turtles, crocodiles, and lizards (the closest equivalent of dinosaurs) most of them lived in the continents of South America and Australia, so early humans didn't encounter them most of the time (Well, except for the crocodiles) Granted, the majority of megafauna died out circa 11,000 BC with the end of the last ice age which forced modern evolved humans to abandon their hunter-gatherer ways and settle down with the invention of agriculture that gave birth to the first civilizations, which ends the prehistoric era with the invention of writing and marks the beginning of recorded human history.
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RealLife is a '''very''' downplayed example of this -- anyone with decent paleontological knowledge will be aware that obviously all known non-avian dinosaurs and most other huge reptiles went extinct '''long''' before the first hominid appeared, (although there are theories that some dinosaurs survived into the Paleocene era). But during actual 1 million years BC, in the middle Pleistoce period, before the global glaciation, our ancestors had discovered primitive tools and fire while diversifying into multiple subspecies and starting to migrate from tropical Africa into Eurasia. The majority of megafauna was mammalian and while there were huge predatory flightless birds and large reptiles like turtles, crocodiles, and lizards (the closest equivalent of dinosaurs) most of them lived in the continents of South America and Australia, so early humans didn't encounter them most of the time (Well, except for the crocodiles) Granted, the majority of megafauna died out circa 11,000 BC with the end of the last ice age which forced modern evolved humans to abandon their hunter-gatherer ways and settle down with the invention of agriculture that gave birth to the first civilizations which ends the prehistoric era with the invention of writing and marks the beginning of recorded human history.

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RealLife is a '''very''' downplayed example of this -- anyone with decent paleontological knowledge will be aware that obviously all known non-avian dinosaurs and most other huge reptiles went extinct '''long''' before the first hominid appeared, (although there are theories that some dinosaurs survived into the Paleocene era). But during actual 1 million years BC, in the middle Pleistoce period, before the global glaciation, our ancestors had discovered primitive tools and fire while diversifying into multiple subspecies and starting to migrate from tropical Africa into Eurasia. The majority of megafauna was mammalian and while there were huge predatory flightless birds and large reptiles like turtles, crocodiles, and lizards (the closest equivalent of dinosaurs) most of them lived in the continents of South America and Australia, so early humans didn't encounter them most of the time (Well, except for the crocodiles) Granted, the majority of megafauna died out circa 11,000 BC with the end of the last ice age which forced modern evolved humans to abandon their hunter-gatherer ways and settle down with the invention of agriculture that gave birth to the first civilizations civilizations, which ends the prehistoric era with the invention of writing and marks the beginning of recorded human history.
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* ''VideoGame/WarParty'' has primitive humans with neolithic technology interacting with an riding dinosaurs as well as ice age mammals.

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* ''WesternAnimation/ValleyOfTheDinosaurs'': Played with. On the one hand, the valley people and the neighboring tribes live in caves in a land where dinosaurs and other pre-human animals are still running around. However, except for the pre-human animals and the fact that everyone speaks English, it actually depicts early cave people rather realistically, from the way they look and dress, to their government and lifestyle. The valley people and neighboring tribes actually seem to be living like how many UsefulNotes/NativeAmerican tribes once did (besides the whole living in caves thing).



* ''WesternAnimation/ValleyOfTheDinosaurs'': Played with. On the one hand, the valley people and the neighboring tribes live in caves in a land where dinosaurs and other pre-human animals are still running around. However, except for the pre-human animals and the fact that everyone speaks English, it actually depicts early cave people rather realistically, from the way they look and dress, to their government and lifestyle. The valley people and neighboring tribes actually seem to be living like how many UsefulNotes/NativeAmerican tribes once did (besides the whole living in caves thing).

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