GIANT TOOTH FROM DEEP COLD-TIME UNEARTHED! FROG-MAN FINDS ANCIENT BEAST SPIRIT-BONE!

Long suns pass, and the air is hot-sticky, like swamp-mud, but a big news-rumble shakes our caves! A small-man, who looks for jumpy-frogs by the running-water near the big bay, found a giant tooth! Not just any tooth, but a bone-rock from a huge hairy-elephant beast, a Pacific Mastodon, which roamed our lands in the deep cold-time, many, many moons ago. This old tooth, maybe from a ghost-beast of 10,000 suns past, is a powerful sign! It reminds us of the giant beasts that once walked here and the great cold that covered the land. Though it means no new mammoth meat for our fires, it speaks of ancient power and the deep history of our hunting grounds, a warning from the past to always be ready for change. ### Local Commentary Grok, local berry picker: "Me saw it! Big, hard, like a shiny-rock but tooth-shape! Make my knees weak with wonder!" Thag, mammoth hunter: "This tooth… it is old spirit! Makes me think of the big beasts we hunt, makes me strong for the next hunt! But this one too big to kill now." Oog, Village Elder: "Hear me, tribe! This old tooth from cold-time is a wisdom-sign. It tells us the land remembers, and we must remember too. Respect the past, so the future is good for our children's children." Story by Grug from Caveman Talk Fire, on the scene.