Cave dweller

The Grotte du Vallonnet, a cave in the French Riviera, was used by people approximately one million years ago.

Starting about 170,000 years ago, some Homo sapiens lived in some cave systems in what is now South Africa, such as Pinnacle Point and Diepkloof Rock Shelter.

The stable temperatures of caves provided a cool habitat in summers and a warm, dry shelter in the winter.

[4] Especially during war and other times of strife, small groups of people have lived temporarily in caves, where they have hidden or otherwise sought refuge.

Writers of the classical Greek and Roman period made several allusions to cave-dwelling tribes in different parts of the world, such as the Troglodytae.

From about 1000 to about 1300, some Pueblo people lived in villages that they built beneath cliffs in what is now the Southwestern United States.

The DeSoto Caverns, in what became Alabama in the United States, were a burial ground for local tribes; the same caves became a violent speakeasy in the 1920s.

[citation needed] From 2021–2023 Beatriz Flamini spent 500 days alone in a cave in Granada in an experiment on the effects of social isolation.

They generally were formed by digging into the ground about four feet in depth on the banks or low cliffs near the river front.