This couple would represent the “people of the plains”, one of two cultures of early Homo sapiens I have developed for a novel set in Africa around 100,000 years ago. As their name would imply, the people of the plains live as nomads following herds of game across the savannas, with their basic social unit being small fission-fusion bands with more or less egalitarian social structures. They do not have rigid gender roles, as both men and women may hunt animals and gather plant foods, and their preferred weapon of the hunt is an obsidian-tipped spear which may either be thrown or thrust. The protagonist of the novel, a young woman named Oja, is from this culture.