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The caveman is a stock character representative of primitive humans in the Paleolithic. The popularization of the type dates to the early 20th century, when Neanderthals were influentially described as "simian" or "ape-like" by Marcellin Boule and Arthur Keith.

So yeah, about 100 years for the caveman meme.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caveman

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