Cavewoman is the name of an independent comic book, published by Basement comics. Cavewoman, created by Budd Root, features a young girl, who is rescued from an abusive mom at the age of 6, and escaped in a time machine programmed for the future with her grandfather, but accidentally gets trapped in the Cretaceous Period and grows up fighting dinosaurs. After the death of her grandfather when she is 8, the main character, Meriem Cooper, grows into a beautiful, scantily clad woman and finds her body has become "reinforced" due to a strange effect of the time travel, which gives her extraordinary strength and stamina.