Help!! Pre-Historic time travel

[cvance74]

I read a story when I was in High School that was part of a compilation that included The Time Machine.

Included in the volume was a story about a man (maybe a scientist) that sent something (maybe a pocket watch) back to the past for a couple minutes and when it returned it was really old and rusty.

The man himself later went back in time with the intentions of it only being for a short time. He ended up being stuck there for several years and become somewhat of a caveman. I tend to remember there was another male caveman that may have befriended him and also maybe that he fell in love with a female cave-woman.

In the end the man somehow returned to his original time realizing in that timeline he was actually gone for only the short time he intended.

I wish I had characters names or something more to go on but, unfortunately, I do not. I've been searching for the name of this story for years. If anyone can help I'd be immensely grateful.

 

[cvance74]

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[Foxbat]

Can't remember a watch in it but it might be No Enemy But Time by Michael Bishop. I do remember that he falls in love with a prehistoric woman in this one.

 

[cvance74]

I wish that was it but, it's not. I think the story is much older. I want to say it took place in London but, I'm not positive.

 

[cvance74]

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[Dave]

Michael Moorcock Behold the Man ???

Spoilers if you have not read it. Not exactly a cave man, and no cave woman, but he does meet Mary. He does die in the past, though if a time traveller dies in the past, he is violently thrust back to the future.

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[otistdog]

You're talking about H. G. Wells' story? That's a big one -- I don't think there were that many collections that would have included it. You might look through the collections that contain it at

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?25149

and see if any of the titles ring a bell. For example, there's a collection called "Travelers in Time" that seems to have the right theme to include both of those stories.