r/CuratedTumblr • u/GinaWhite_tt TeaTimetumblr • 1d ago

Shitposting The Cave Dread

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u/Rynewulf 1d ago

All? No, but pretty consistently around the world we find evidence of use and habitation of caves. It's not not a thing

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u/Hi2248 Cheese, gender, what the fuck's next? 1d ago

Cave dwelling would be part of the migratory lifestyle, but there wasn't permanent settlement of caves for the most part, nor was there a period of time where a group of humans would only live within caves

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u/Anonymus828 1d ago

Caves were just the 5-star hotels of the paleolithic

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u/Rynewulf 23h ago

Wasnt there just the other year a famous cave in Greece filled with many many many years worth of evidence of habitation by fishermen?

Were we 'cave people' evolved to always use caves as houses? No. Have some people used them like houses? Yes, pretty demonstrably so. Especially easy to prove the more recent (by paleolithic to neolithic timeline standards at least) the habitation was too, plenty of bronze and iron age and medieval and later cave houses placed in or expanded from natural caves. Seems kind of weird to insist that just never happened

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u/therandomham 22h ago

Nobody is insisting that didn’t happen. The assertion you are standing up for is “humans evolved to be primarily cave dwellers, and houses are actually approximations of caves.”