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I'm just some guy, but why would hominins settle so high in what are now the Philippines when a lower altitude would have given better access to water and game.
by CoolGuySteve 9y ago
I'm just some guy, but why would hominins settle so high in what are now the Philippines when a lower altitude would have given better access to water and game.
Is it possible there are settlements, they're just under the ocean now, on what used to be large flat land bridges?
- rjsw 9y ago> Is it possible there are settlements, they're just under the ocean now, on what used to be large flat land bridges? Quite possible, evidence of settlements at lower levels have been found elsewhere [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland
- piptastic 9y agoI don’t know, I have the same question for Floridians every summer.. Why don’t they just move! But seriously I think that’s why it’s called settling. Ok I’m tired of moving I’m going to stop here and build a life and that’s it. And then they actively ignore any evidence it’s a bad decision. I’m guessing people of yore were similar.
- xutopia 9y agoWith greater heights you have less problems with insects. It could very well be that there were humans everywhere but those who lived there did better.
- mabbo 9y agoThis is actually a really big problem for studying humans migration across the Bering Sea- most of the lane that was coastal at the time is now deeply under water. Beringia[0] was a huge land mass, possibly full of people and it existed for thousands of years. What we consider the coast now was much higher ground, probably less suitable for habitation, in part because the world was colder (ice age)- and thus, no signs of human habitation in those parts. All the answers, if any remain, are deeply under water. [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beringia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beringia