Cool Prehistoric Team Names

Five prehistoric team names a press: Stone Age and cave names, Ice Age animals, period names with meanings, caveman jokes.

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  1. Pleistocene PackThe Pleistocene is the epoch commonly called the Ice Age.
  2. Stone Age Appropriate
  3. Irish Elk AntlersThe Irish elk, a giant deer, had the largest antlers known of any deer.
  4. Big Beasts of the Ice Age
  5. Prehistoric Prodigies

How it works

Cool prehistoric team names for a class, a camp or a field day, from Cave Wall Artists to Saber-Tooth Fairies: 96 ideas in four sets. No dinosaur is here; those are on the dinosaur team names list.

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Stone Age and Ice Age are two clocks

The Stone Age is counted in tools: Paleolithic means Old Stone Age, Mesolithic the middle and Neolithic the new, when farming began. The Ice Age is counted in ice: it is the everyday name of the Pleistocene epoch, which ended about 11,700 years ago. Period names with meanings prints a line like these under each of its 19 names.

Caveman theme team names

The funny set is the one for a caveman theme: Man Cave Men, Club Cave, Discovered Fire Yesterday, No Signal in the Cave. The Ice Age set names the big animals of the time: the woolly mammoth, the saber-toothed cat, the cave bear and the Irish elk.

Questions and answers

What are cool prehistoric team names?

Stone Age Sages, The Flint Knappers, Mammoth March, Ice Age Stampede, Saber-Tooth Cats and Mighty Megafauna. None was taken from a cartoon, a film or a game.

What are caveman theme team names?

We Never Cave, Cave Sweet Cave, Caveman Hours, Cave Art Critics and Act Your Stone Age are in the funny set. The jokes are on caves, fire and slow thawing.

What are prehistoric group names with a meaning?

Paleolithic Pals, Neolithic Newcomers, Megalith Movers, Menhir Raisers and Interglacial Break are in the third set. A menhir is a large upright stone, and an interglacial is a warm spell between two cold ones.

All 96 names

Stone Age and cave names 25

  • Antler and Flint
  • Berry Gatherers of the Cave
  • Bone Flute Band People of the Upper Paleolithic played flute-like pipes made of bone.
  • Bone Needle Stitchers
  • Cave Bison Painters Bison, horses and deer are among the animals painted most often in caves.
  • Cave Drummers
  • Cave Echoes
  • Cave Mouth Lookouts
  • Cave Wall Artists
  • Dawn of the Cave
  • Firelight Storytellers
  • Flint and Tinder
  • The Flint Knappers Knapping is shaping flint or other stone by striking it.
  • Fur Cloak Clan
  • Handprints on the Wall Cave art includes tracings of human hands.
  • Prehistoric Pioneers
  • The Prehistorics
  • Red Ochre Artists Red and yellow ochre were among the pigments of cave paintings.
  • Stone Age Gatherers
  • Stone Age Sages
  • Stone Age Strong
  • Stone Age Trailblazers
  • Stone Circle Builders A stone circle is a ring of standing stones; most date from the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age.
  • Stone Hearth Circle
  • Stone Tool Makers

Ice Age animal names 23

  • Armored Glyptodons Glyptodons were large extinct armadillos with an armored shell.
  • Aurochs Herd The aurochs is the wild ancestor of domestic cattle.
  • Big Beasts of the Ice Age
  • Cave Bear Naps Cave bears often spent the winter asleep in caves, where most of their remains were found.
  • Curved Tusk Crew Woolly mammoths had long, curved tusks.
  • Frozen Tusks
  • Glacier Melt Runners
  • Ground Sloth Stretchers The largest ground sloths were about the size of an elephant.
  • Ice Age Stampede
  • Ice Age Trekkers
  • Irish Elk Antlers The Irish elk, a giant deer, had the largest antlers known of any deer.
  • Last of the Megafauna Many of the large Ice Age mammals died out late in the Pleistocene.
  • Mammoth Calves
  • Mammoth March
  • Mammoth Steppe Roamers The mammoth steppe was a cold, dry grassland that once stretched from Europe to Canada.
  • Mammoth Tracks
  • Mastodon Molars Mastodons lived in North America and are in the same order as elephants and mammoths.
  • Mighty Megafauna Megafauna means large animals, such as mammoths and ground sloths.
  • Saber-Tooth Cats Smilodon, the best known saber-toothed cat, was not closely related to the tiger.
  • Tundra Tuskers
  • Woolly Coats Club The woolly mammoth had an outer coat of long hair over a shorter undercoat.
  • Woolly Mammoth Herd The woolly mammoth's closest living relative is the Asian elephant.
  • Woolly Rhino Herd The woolly rhinoceros had long, thick hair and lived in northern Eurasia.

Period names with meanings 19

  • Before Written Records Prehistory ends where written records begin, at different times in different places.
  • Dolmen Builders A dolmen is a tomb of upright stones under a large flat capstone.
  • Holocene Latecomers The Holocene is the epoch we live in now; it followed the Pleistocene.
  • Interglacial Break The warmer spells between the cold glacial periods are called interglacials.
  • Lithic Legends Lithos is the Greek word for stone, as in Paleolithic and Neolithic.
  • Megalith Movers A megalith is a large stone used in a prehistoric monument; the word is Greek for great stone.
  • Menhir Raisers A menhir is a large upright stone set up by people; the word means long stone.
  • Mesolithic in the Middle Mesolithic is Greek for middle stone: the age between the Paleolithic and the Neolithic.
  • Neolithic Newcomers Neolithic is Greek for new stone: the New Stone Age.
  • Neolithic Revolutionaries The Neolithic Revolution is the change from hunting and gathering to settled farming.
  • New Stone Age Farmers Farming and tamed animals began in the New Stone Age.
  • Old Stone Age Originals The Old Stone Age, or Paleolithic, covers almost all of human prehistory.
  • Paleolithic Pals Paleolithic means Old Stone Age, the time of the first stone tools.
  • Paleolithic Tool Kit Paleolithic tools were knapped stone, with wood and bone tools beside them.
  • Pleistocene Pack The Pleistocene is the epoch commonly called the Ice Age.
  • Prehistory Buffs Prehistory runs from the first stone tools to the invention of writing.
  • Quaternary Crew The Pleistocene and the Holocene together make up the Quaternary period.
  • Three Age System Archaeology's three-age system runs Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age.
  • Upper Paleolithic Painters Cave paintings began near the end of the Paleolithic.

Funny caveman theme names 29

  • Act Your Stone Age
  • Cave Art Critics
  • The Cave People
  • Cave Sweet Cave
  • Caveman Hours
  • Club Cave
  • Discovered Fire Yesterday
  • Fight Saber-Tooth and Nail
  • Flint Condition
  • Frozen in Time
  • Giant Ground Sloths, Slowly
  • Ice Age Before Beauty
  • Long in the Saber-Tooth
  • Mammoth Undertaking
  • Man Cave Men
  • Mighty Stalagmites
  • Moving at Glacier Speed
  • Multi-Tuskers
  • Neander-Tall
  • No Signal in the Cave
  • Prehistoric but Punctual
  • Prehistoric Prodigies
  • Recently Thawed
  • Saber-Tooth Fairies
  • Stone Age Appropriate
  • Stone Age Fright
  • Sweet Saber-Tooth
  • We Never Cave
  • Woolly Thinkers