The Ever-unfolding Marriage of
Loewenmensch and Venus of Hohle Fels
Over the next 20,000 years the descendants of Leowenmensch and Venus, seeing off the last of their Neanderthal friends, and the ending of the Ice Age, expanded west and east, conjoining with other groups in the fertile valleys of Europe and along the flowing rivers of the middle East, as well as in northern Africa.
They lived, sometimes, in huts made from the bones of the carcasses of the mammoths, their early brethren, who were also becoming extinct due to the extreme change in climate. The women shared coequally with the men in accomplishing the food gathering and preparation, if maybe not the child rearing; and the families did not reside as individual units, but coexisted in groups, giving question to the assumed timing and the previously accepted application of the designation, civil(ization).
They did not war, as had occurred hundreds of thousands of years before, as there was plenty; though there became signs of the beginnings of individual accumulation and, perhaps, greed.