In prehistoric times habitable caves offered shelter to people living in their vicinity.
Various caves have had various uses down the centuries - the huge entrance hall of Peak Cavern in Derbyshire's Peak District (UK) once held rope-walks, and shows one today, though I don't know if it's original or a replica. The show-cave section of Wookey Hole (Somerset, SW England) has an artificial exit tunnel that both leads tourists back out to the sunshine - and other parts of the tourist site overall - and is used for curing cheeses!
Active caves are conduits feeding water from the hills to springs, so sources of water (though this is also true of aquifers of course).
Nowadays show-caves are tourist attractions, so contribute to their lcoal economies as well as showing non-cavers what caves are like.
Generally caves are the venue for the pursuit of caving, an activity that combines physical and mental challenges with particular aesthetic attractions not found on the surface; and to the dedicated cave explorer the chance of discovering "new" caves or series - places no-one else has ever seen.
This in turn supports businesses supplying equipment, publications etc, and of course cavers visiting caving areas spend money in local shops, pubs, cafes etc. In the UK at least many caving clubs own "huts" - rather more palatial than that suggests - self-catering club-houses that contribute locally through rates and often use of local suppliers of requisites like building and cleaning materials.
Caves are also of considerable scientific interest and significance under the umbrella title of Speleology, covering principally geology, hydrology, Biology and Archaeology. At present a good deal of research is into geological evidence preserved by being in caves, of past climates, helping us to understand climate change. The formal reports are generally published in learned journals like Cave & Karst Science.
For their palaeo-anthropology.
Geologically, their sediments and speleothems preserve palaeoclimate evidence. Palaeontologically, many caves preserve animal remains. Archaeologically, some caves preserve human remains, artefacts or art.
Early man likely started living in caves for several reasons. Caves provided natural shelter and protection from the elements and predators. They also provided a constant temperature, which could have been beneficial for survival in different seasons. Additionally, caves may have offered early humans a sense of security and privacy.
They may have done IF there were suitable caves in the areas they inhabited.
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Absolutely. There were humans that lived in caves. Some humans still live in caves by choice.
Five rediscovered the caves in 1959. The caves were occupied by humans 25,000 years ago.
early humans painted pictures with caves./
yes and in caves
Bears, raccoons, humans (at least the prehistoric ones), etc.
They lived in caves and at humans, sheep ext......
After the Neanderthals, anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens) emerged and eventually became the dominant species of human. This transition occurred around 40,000-50,000 years ago.
no they do not... they do not hurt the caves in any way.. its only the humans put so much carbon dioxide into the caves wich make it melt..=]
It was their way of recording what happened and what they saw
For their palaeo-anthropology.
No, cave paintings and evidence of human habitation in caves date back much further than 100 BC. The earliest known cave paintings were created more than 30,000 years ago by early humans. The term "cavemen" generally refers to prehistoric humans who lived in caves, so their existence predates 100 BC by thousands of years.
Around about 4-2 millon years ago