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Where did people live in the Stone Age?

It's time to forget about this cliché once and for all.

"Caveman" is not a very appropriate description for people who lived in the Stone Age and during the Paleolithic. All of this is part of the old school history teaching of the “to be honest, I don’t give a damn about everything that was there before the Romans”, so revered at the end of the XNUMXth century. Modern historians and archaeologists, by the way, abandoned it long ago.

Paleolithic Neanderthals were hunter-gatherers, led a nomadic lifestyle and used caves only occasionally. In total, archaeologists have discovered 277 such caves in Europe, including Altamira in Spain, Lascaux in France, and Creswell Crags in Derbyshire. There are indeed cave paintings and traces of a fire, cooking, rituals and burials, but none of these caves was intended for permanent residence.

The earliest examples of European rock art are about 40 thousand years old - although everyone knows that it is extremely difficult to determine the exact age in such cases. The paint is not organic, so carbon dating is not possible.

The most convincing explanation for the function of rock art comes from later paintings made by hunter-gatherers in South Africa and Australia. Here, the drawings were the creation of shamans who entered dark and often abandoned caves in order to communicate with the spirit world. Another theory suggests that the cave paintings were common graffiti by Neanderthal teenagers.

According to experts, today in Northern China about 40 million people live in cave houses (or dugouts) - the so-called yaodong. Given the fact that the entire population of the Earth in 8000 BC. e., probably amounted to no more than five million, cavemen on the planet today are eight times more than people of all kinds in those distant times.

People who live in caves are called troglodytes - from the Greek troglodytes, "living in a hole or cave."

Places where troglodytes can still be found today include Cappadocia in Turkey, Andalusia in southern Spain, New Mexico in the United States, and the Canary Islands.

All this may be the beginning rather than the end of a trend. The results of a study conducted by specialists from the University of the English city of Bath, suggest that an underground dwelling uses 25% less energy than a conventional house.

Author: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson

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Why did one ancient Roman criminal choose a chicken as a rival for the battle in the Colosseum?

In ancient Rome, a criminal could be punished by a duel in the Colosseum with a wild beast, such as a lion. It was this fate that Emperor Gallienus prepared for a merchant who sold fake jewelry to the monarch's wife. And when the merchant was standing in the arena, instead of a lion, a chicken came out of the cage, causing general merriment. Gallienus announced: "He deceived and was deceived himself," after which he let the merchant go home.

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