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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.
Rock doves (pigeons) evolved to live on cliff faces. Cities are covered in artificial cliff faces, i.e. buildings.
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 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’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!
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
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?
I don’t think millipedes think we are cave adapted organisms.
They underestimate the murderous impulse of arachnophobes
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
House centipedes and lentil-sized spiders are most welcome in my house.
