The truth is they've only exposed the tip of an iceberg. Trust me on this subject, there is a lot more where this came from.
Nobody knows why these things were so important to neolithic people but if you've been reading this blog you might be able to venture a guess.
The original Neanderthal skeleton at the British Museum of Natural History was not just diagnosed with severe rickets a century after it had been assembled. There were some scientists who have examined it who are convinced that this man ... or whatever it was ... had spent his entire life underground. The entire mythology of Neanderthals was based around this skeleton, clearly warped and stunted by a very strange environment indeed. Perhaps a creature who had never seen the Sun in his entire existence.
Wharever you do, don't use the "F" word. That's opening a really big can of worms. Specifically, were there hominids who were specially adapted for life underground and very small tunnels? Doesn't hurt to think about it.
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Well one thing I thought when you wrote about the vitamin D deprived skeleton exposed in the London Museum was that before agriculture, each human needed an area of ten square kilometers to feed himself.
There is no possibility for a tribe to survive if it lives in a single cavern. Especially if the hunting & gathering is done at night, away from the sun's radiations.
However, having a network of such tunnels could make it all possible.
The networks didn't even have to connect, they had only to be distant from a night's walk one from another.
Now when you factor in the time it took to dig them, then these Neanderthals would have continuously busy.
Thanks Tex,
I'd been wondering about what the recent disclosure of these things (that many of us have known about for years). Why now? The whole thing kinda makes you wonder about Ray Palmer and Richard Shaver, eh?
Allow me to share a little story. Bear with me, it's worth it. Back when I was about eight (1977, New Jersey), I was fortunate enough to live beside a huge forest on a steep slope owned by a (US Open) golf course. Where the slope leveled out there was a football field size catch basin, presumably to control springtime runoff, and keep it from washing out portions of the course below. It had tunnels, concrete drainage channels, and odd bunker-like structures. It was a great place to ride BMX bikes and explore. Well, sometimes by brother (about 11 at the time) and I would go there and pretend be were adventurers/archeologists (remember, this was years before Raiders of the Lost Ark came out) and came up with a pretty elaborate fantasy to play out. We envisioned that when we finally got into on of the "bunkers" we found high-tech tunnels leading down to an underground city. Inside we found the living descendants of a population who went underground 50,000 years ago to escape a nuclear war.
Now I ask you, what would cause a couple of 10 year olds to conjure up a scenario like that? We'd never heard of the Mahabharata, or the Shaver Mystery. Looking back, I think we were just tapped into some knowledge base that children have better access to, because they haven't had it conditioned out of them by scientism and edjumafication.
FWIW,
stv
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World of the brink of apocalyptic financial catastrophe.
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Scientists can be funny:
"Some experts believe the network was a way of protecting man from predators while others believe that some of the linked tunnels were used like motorways are today, for people to travel safely regardless of wars or violence or even weather above ground."
They said most were 70 centimeters wide, or only big enough to wriggle through. No one was using these things to travel -- unless the builders were hobbits.
"Looking back, I think we were just tapped into some knowledge base that children have better access to, because they haven't had it conditioned out of them by scientism and edjumafication."
You mean that there probably were societies living entirely underground?
Except they were obviously dug by somebody. They aren't natural formations.
What we've run up against here is yet another crack in our paradigm for reality, which is obviously wrong.
I don't know what they are or why they are there. I do know when something is really odd and challenges our existing assertions. This is one of them.
The "F" word is Faery. They are universal myths in almost every culture that has ever existed.
If a previous race of hominids was forced underground, wouldn't a reduction in size and calorie requirements just make sense? They might not need to be as large as modern humans if they were surviving off cave fish and mushrooms or fungal gardens.
I'm just speculating. Somebody better explain these things away because otherwise they don't make any sense.
Some of the detractors claiming they are natural water channels are not familiar with the evidence. Scoring of tools along the walls exist in these in most cases, indicating something carved them.
Anon 7:10
No, I meant the more general idea of cycles of civilizations. The notion that a fully advanced society could have existed long ago, about which no record is (openly) known. A notion I might add, that is not widely accepted today as fact, however exists in ancient texts and legends. And BTW Tex, I was figuring the "F" word had to be "Faerie," I'm glad to see my guess was right.
stv
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