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Turn off all electrical power, even the emergency lights, to any building, especially large multistorey or sprawling buildings and everything instantly turns into a deep dark neverending cave.
It’s only the bright lights that make it all feel like it’s a modern living space.
Without the light, everything and every covered space is a cave.
Tbh we are cave adapted organisms to a point. Remember when you got a fever or a cold, and all you wanted to do was curl up in a corner of the room with your blanket all over you? That is inherently the human brain trying to go into a “cave”, a more secluded area with less things that don’t overwhelm it. We’ve evolved to go into “return to cave” mode when we feel sick.
Archaeologist here, it’s heavily disputed if caves were that integral to our evolution. Issue is lack of studies. In much of Europe caves were very popular amongst researchers, but new studies began finding a ton of sites outside of caves. And remember this part of our evolution is not very significant. 99% of our evolutionary history we lived in Africa. Unfortunately the data is not as good and the areas not as well researched to say.
We do know many cultures have lived in areas for tens of thousands of years without access to caves.
What we can say though is people in regions with caves will use them at least seasonally
I feel like there is also a lot of a certain bias(selection bias? Observation bias?) i cant remember the name of. Basically, human sites inside of caves SHOULD be the thing we find most often because they are less likely to be eroded away. Whereas human sites that were right next to a river are much more difficult to find because the river has expanded, eroding away most of the evidence. You are left with small artifacts instead of paintings, fire pits, bone collections, etc.
Survivorship bias
Thats the one. Isnt that the same bias that always gets brought up in regards to planes getting shot down?
The very same
I make some kind of reference to “cavemen” at least once a month and I never stopped to consider this.
Most if not all mammals will do that.
I would like to return to the womb when I’m sick and get life support via umbilical cord.
The picture is just generations of smashing critters on walls.
As an aside, these hands are created by placing a hand on the wall and painting around it so your attempt at reframing this wholesomeness as hate crimes against the critter bros is simply ignorant, how dare you
Rock doves (pigeons) evolved to live on cliff faces. Cities are covered in artificial cliff faces, i.e. buildings.
I have a symbiotic relationship with spiders. They bite me, I scratch the bite to ensure my limb is still there.
I feel like you need to address these frequent spider bites first of all
I was thinking the other day how common are caves? I’ve never see one outside of certain widely known public locations.
To be fair, there’s a lot of caves that don’t get much attention because they’re too small to fit inside of. There’s a lot of micro-caves that’s not much more than a little hollow behind a crack in a rock, perfect for bugs.
You mean the rectum? This is exactly why I don’t like housing bugs.
Centipedes, in my vagina?
I don’t know if that makes it better or worse.
I think the idea that early humans lived mostly in caves comes likely from the fact that caves are very stable environments where you can find remains of a fireplace or the like hundreds of thousands of years later.
But what if most early humans lived in wooden huts like people in the Amazon or Papua-New Guinea do today, or in igloos like the people north of the polar circle? You would not find the remains of an igloo cause it would have been a wet spot in the next spring.
So, the notion that many humans lived in caves might just be survivorship bias.
Yeah that’s my brain is trying to get to. Like im sure some humans did but no way this was ultra common. Id imagine its the equivalent like living in a castle.
It’s more common to find that stone age humans lived under rock outcroppings than caves proper as it happens, partly because it is much more common to find an outcropping than a sufficiently large cave. They also simply didn’t have many permanent settlements until the development of agriculture so either way the groups wouldn’t stay long
More common than both is indeed wooden and leather shelters, but you don’t find surviving paintings on leather from 50,000 BC
There’s a map of cave networks in the US, along with entrances for them, and they pretty much fill the entire map. And that’s just known caves in the continental US.
I looked up American caves it looks mostly along mountain ranges which makes sense but then I check European caves map and it was just all of Europe lol. I guess just need to off road the trails.
We are cave adapted creatures, and we tend to turn the world into more caves, covering everything with rock-like materials.
People didn’t actually live in caves, for the reason that caves are crappy to live in. (The video has English subtitles.)
a cave man was cave in places where were caves
It all sounds so silly in translation, but it makes perfect sense. Cave people lived in caves, but only in places that had caves otherwise they were just man.
They didn’t live in those, either. Just sheltered from rain, and did rituals in there.
Living in a cave is a sure way to get arthritis.
I’ve never lived in a cave and I have arthritis.
Well, you can live in a cave now. It’ll still be uncomfortable as heck, however.
Just like living in my home!
I wouldn’t go so far as to make such absolute claims. We have many historic and contemporary instances of peoples living in caves, so it’s certainly achievable.
I don’t think millipedes think we are cave adapted organisms.
Millipedes come running in this house. Maybe in the fall? Anyway, into the vivarium they go! Good luck with the tiny tarantula. Haven’t seen her in weeks, but I assume she’s hiding under the toy Star Destroyer.
Would they rather the bigger tank? The one with the random frog and chameleon? Not sure they’d eat millipedes, but I bet they’re not afraid to try.
And where my blue isopods?! She get hungry?
They underestimate the murderous impulse of arachnophobes
House centipedes and lentil-sized spiders are most welcome in my house.
