Our Antediluvian Ancestors

A Sunday comic strip depicting prehistoric humans and creatures in a domestic scenario. The left panel shows a character narrating a banquet incident involving Stone Hatchet and his wife entertaining winged pterodactyls, who departed before dinner was served. The right panels display a parade of fantastical prehistoric beings—flying reptiles, ape-like figures, and early humans—in exaggerated caricature. The strip employs the visual conventions standard to newspaper comics of the era: sequential panels, speech balloons, and recurring characters rendered in ink wash and line work. This humor derives from anachronistic domesticity imposed on prehistoric settings, a popular vein of comedy in early twentieth-century newspaper Sunday pages.