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Extensive Desert 'Lava Tubes' Sheltered Humans for 7,000 Years, Archaeologists Find (www.smithsonianmag.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Wilshire@lemmy.world to c/science@lemmy.world

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[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 27 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Camel-riding Humanoid Underground Dwellers? I don't think they exist.

[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago

You're only saying that because no one's ever seen one!

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Actually I'm saying it in the hopes that Danny Blackner will one day leap at me from on high with murderous intent

[-] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Chad comment right there.

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I thought that was:

Cave-dwelling

Half-drunk

Asinine

Dudebrah

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I only manage half of those at most, would love a cave to call my own.

[-] Noit@lemm.ee 15 points 5 months ago

I’d heard lava tubes pitched as one of the more straightforward ways of building a moon base, fascinating to learn that this would actually be a return to form for human dwellings.

Humans: we just like living in lava tubes.

[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 months ago

Sietches...

[+] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl -19 points 5 months ago

please don't post Inner Earth conspiracy theories

[-] D1G17AL@kbin.social 36 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Did you even read the article? Its about lava tubes in Saudi Arabia hosting hunter-gatherers, herders, and other generations of humans from the desert heat. Its not some inner earth conspiracy theory. Also why would the Smithsonian host Inner Earth conspiracy theories? From the article,

In the lava tubes, archaeologists discovered human bones, animal remains and stone tools. They also found rock art featuring cattle, sheep, goats and dogs, which aligns with ideas that prehistoric people of the region kept livestock.