Who was the first caveman to start the "our ancestors had

>Homo ergaster
>caveman

The African hominids were grassland dwelling animals. It wasn't until Homo species moved out of the Fertile Cresent and the expanding ice sheets that caves became major dwelling sites.

I don't know but nostalgia about the good old days is omnipresent in human history. Golden Age myth and all that.

"The behaviour of young men today is not what it was when I was young. In those days men hankered after deeds of derring-do, either by going raiding or by winning wealth and honor through exploits in which there was some element of danger. But nowadays young men want to be stay-at-homes, and sit by the fire, and stuff their stomachs with mead and ale; and so it is that manliness and bravery are on the wane." - Ketil the Large, Egil's Saga

>>1934457
>be in cave
>sexlady tells me Gonk brings home twice as much mammoth as me
>says spawn are starving
>look at apes eating bugs off of each other
>all are happy
>if little ape dies they just make another
>think to myself if life wasn't better before fire

>>1934545
>Oog believe Oog come from ape and not great nature green sky father R'kah and his 12 sexladies
>Oog is this delusional

>>1934457
As far as texts go I'd say old kingdom Egyptians and Hesiodus