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Researchers Find Caves That Show Humans To Have Been Dwelling In Them 176,500 Years Ago

The thing is, the only reason we find artifacts in caves is not so much because early humans "lived" in them, but because the caves are the only environments where those artifacts are sufficiently sheltered from the evidence to still be intact and findable 100,000 years later. The bulk of Neanderthal and early Human habitation was typically above ground in a combination of village life and nomadic hunter-gatherers.

Really, trying to study early humans by exploring the caves would be a bit like studying new yorkers by exploring subway tunnels.
 
It isn't?

Hey quit shoving!

Sorry, another one of those subway poltergeists--you there! No needle freaks!
 
I would have to say that early humans living in the caves from the article must have at first lived underground and followed the cave system of streams and rivers to do their hunting from. Perhaps even to the point of creating early fisheries to raise fish in to then eat.

It is theorized that a large astroid killed the dinosaurs off. With humans emerging after the dinosaurs demise I would have to say that they were naturally underground dwellers and avoided being wiped out because they had adapted to live deep underground.
 
Humans did not evolve until long after the dinosaurs had been wiped out. There was no "avoiding being wiped out" from the asteroid.
 
Humans were once thought to have evolved from apes which gave them their low crouching and bent over appearance. However with the recent discovery in the article of humans having been found living in caves 176,500 years ago I am going to say the reason why humans have the appearance of being bent over and crouching in early finds is because of the height of the caves that they lived in that did not have very tall ceilings. Such caves possibly being deeper under ground which would have been perfect shelter for life after the asteroid impacted Earth killing the dinosaurs.

During the period prior to the asteroid impacting Earth early humans would have ventured further and further out of their cave systems that allowed the progression of humans to stand more and more upright and into today's modern human. We always see humans living in caves in the past and not trees so there has to be some aspect of a cave as being the womb that humanity grew in and then emerged from.

If humans evolved after the dinosaur and not along with them in the protection of deep caves then perhaps the asteroid impact cracked the Earth open enough to allow the developing humans deep underground the necessary nutrients to grow larger and stronger to venture out of the cave .

A recent discovery shows how the "Hobbit" race of people having existed nearly 300,000 years ago on an island. How did they get there? Not by boat. They had to have come up from the inside of the island which is probably a long dead or dormant volcano. They may have even found the island by following a lava tube that had dried up leaving a tunnel behind.

"Hobbit" Species - http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/201...esia-orig.cnn1238PMVideoVideo&linkId=25371309
Lava Tunnel - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/Thurston_Lava_Tube,_Big_Island.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lava_tube
 
Explaining something as relevant as the beginnings of humanity should never be short and concise.

That is what God is for.
 
Various points:

1. Neanderthals were Human. One of at least 3 Human subspecies. We know this because pretty much all modern humans (apart from Sub-Saharan African populations and a few other more isolated Clades) have at least a hint of their (and/or other Human subspecies') DNA.
2. Human ancestors have been walking fully upright for millions of years. The hunched ape-man is old and outdated science.
3. Human ancestors evolved from trees to walking the savanna and forest floor. We don't have any signs, even vestigial, of subterranean adaptation.
 
Venardhi said:
Various points:

1. Neanderthals were Human. One of at least 3 Human subspecies. We know this because pretty much all modern humans (apart from Sub-Saharan African populations and a few other more isolated Clades) have at least a hint of their (and/or other Human subspecies') DNA.
2. Human ancestors have been walking fully upright for millions of years. The hunched ape-man is old and outdated science.
3. Human ancestors evolved from trees to walking the savanna and forest floor. We don't have any signs, even vestigial, of subterranean adaptation.
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I believe that the Neanderthals were as intelligent as their modern companions. They just died out and were beaten to the punch by modern humans. Imagine had they survived.
 
Coco Pops 1967 said:
I believe that the Neanderthals were as intelligent as their modern companions. They just died out and were beaten to the punch by modern humans. Imagine had they survived.
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They may or may not have been, but their DNA lives on in us either way.
 
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