Animals build a lot of different kind of homes. Birds have nests, foxes and wolves find a den, some fish have sort of a den underwater too. Some birds live inside the tree trunk and some in the branches. Some animals don't build a home at all they just live under a tree or some other sheltered spot.

What kind of animal home would you build? Could you live in it all year round? The early people are called cave people because they lived in caves. That was the easiest thing around for them. But caves would have been damp and dark. Not very pleasant to live in. But, they didn't know how to build things the way people do now. Everything they had came right from its natural, raw state. If they needed a hammer, they had to make one.

I think its interesting to see how they might have lived. We won't ever know all about them. People study what's left from them but we can never see everything. Just as we don't know exactly how dinosaurs looked, we don't know exactly how cave people would have spoken or communicated to each other. We don't know how much they knew about the world around them. We can't really know what their religion was, just bits from the things that have survived since then.

I don't think I would like being a cave person. There would be no bathrooms, no medicine for allergies, no books to read and learn about stuff. I'd miss my computer and being able to hop on a bus and go anywhere in the city or the country. But, cave people, the real ones who lived so long ago, didn't know about buses or computers, so they wouldn't miss those things at all. I wonder what they would think about the world as it is now. So many changes for them to see. Just seeing a car driving along would probably scare them.

What would they think of our houses? Apartment buildings with so many houses all stacked together reaching up to the sky. Could they even have imagined something like that? If they got used to living here, in this time. Would they like it better? They could drive cars, go to movies, have fast food and medicine. They could go to school and learn all kinds of stuff. They wouldn't have to hunt for all their food and they could have as much heat as they want without building a fire. I think they would really like driving a car, even more than living in our houses. But, I'm not sure they would be the best drivers, I bet they would be speeders.