Cave
hideA cave is a natural underground void large enough for a human to enter. Some people suggest that the term cave should only apply to cavities that have some part that does not receive daylight; however, in popular usage, the term includes smaller spaces like sea caves, rock shelters, and grottos.
Speleology is the science of exploration and study of all aspects of caves and the environment which surrounds the caves. Exploring a cave for recreation or science may be called caving, potholing, or, in Canada and the United States, spelunking (see Caving).
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News tagged with cave
Bedrock of a holy city: the historical importance of Jerusalem's geology
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Oct 19, 2009 |
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Jerusalem's geology has been crucial in molding it into one of the most religiously important cities on the planet, according to a new study.
Early human hunters had fewer meat-sharing rituals
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A University of Arizona anthropologist has discovered that humans living at a Paleolithic cave site in central Israel between 400,000 and 250,000 years ago were as successful at big-game hunting as were later ...
Cut marks on bone suggest burial rituals of Early Britons
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Aug 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Research on human remains from Kent’s Cavern in Devon has led scientists to believe that humans from the Mesolithic period (after the Ice Age) may have engaged in complex ritualistic burial ...
When did humans return after last Ice Age?
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Cheddar Gorge in Somerset was one of the first sites to be inhabited by humans when they returned to Britain near the end of the last Ice Age. According to new radio carbon dating by Oxford ...
Underground cave dating from the year 1 A.D. exposed in Jordan Valley
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Jun 22, 2009 |
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An artificial underground cave, the largest in Israel, has been exposed in the Jordan Valley in the course of a survey carried out by the University of Haifa's Department of Archaeology.
'The world's oldest manufactured beads' are older than previously thought
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of archaeologists has uncovered some of the world’s earliest shell ornaments in a limestone cave in Eastern Morocco. The researchers have found 47 examples of Nassarius marine shells, ...
Peruvian stalagmites a new basis for 'Inconvenient truth'?
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Will the Netherlands that is dominated by water succumb to the 'Inconvenient Truth' predicted by Al Gore? Dutch researcher Martin van Breukelen analysed stalagmites from the South American Amazon tributaries in Peru. He used ...
Researchers Study Cave's 'Breathing' for Better Climate Clues
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Mar 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Arkansas researcher studying the way caves "breathe" is providing new insights into the process by which scientists study paleoclimates.
Mould problem "stable" at Lascaux cave
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The problem of black fungus threatening world-famous prehistoric paintings at the Lascaux Cave in southwestern France is "stable," a scientist said on Thursday.
Stalagmites in Northeast Brazilian Caves Confirm 9,000-Year Model of Diminishing Rainfall
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Feb 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Until recently, researchers studying climate history in Brazil’s dry Nordeste region expected it to have wet and dry periods similar to the rest of South America. But over the past 9,000 years, ...
Voracious sponges save reef
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Jan 13, 2009 |
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Tropical oceans are known as the deserts of the sea. And yet this unlikely environment is the very place where the rich and fertile coral reef grows. Dutch researcher Jasper de Goeij investigated how caves in the coral reef ...
Earliest evidence of our cave-dwelling human ancestors
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Dec 19, 2008 |
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A research team led by Professor Michael Chazan, director of the University of Toronto's Archaeology Centre, has discovered the earliest evidence of our cave-dwelling human ancestors at the Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa.
Cave's climate clues show ancient empires declined during dry spell
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Dec 04, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The decline of the Roman and Byzantine empires in the Eastern Mediterranean more than 1,400 years ago may have been driven by unfavorable climate changes.
Climate change wiped out cave bears 13 millennia earlier than thought
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Enormous cave bears, Ursus spelaeus, that once inhabited a large swathe of Europe, from Spain to the Urals, died out 27,800 years ago, around 13 millennia earlier than was previously believed, scientists ...
Ancient cave draws MSU archaeologists to southeast Montana
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Oct 23, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Eryka Thorley had already excavated ancient fire hearths and stone flakes, but a severe thunderstorm on the final day of field work added a new dimension to the archaeology dig in southeast ...
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