- [[Medieval hermits often lived in caves]] - [hermit of Socotra Island](https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20211209-the-hermit-of-socotra-island) is an interesting modern-day cave-dweller, see also: [[2022-06-13 Trade]] - [Matiate in Turkey](https://en.qantara.de/content/sensational-find-in-turkey-turkish-archaeologists-discover-subterranean-city-of-matiate) was cave that opened up into a subterranean city in use for 1900 years and capable of housing up to 70,000 people. * Caves on the Indonesian island of Flores were [continuously occupied by rats for 190,000 years](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/hobbit-humans-story-gets-twist-from-thousands-of-rat-bones), but the "human relative" _Homo floresiensis_ ("hobbits" with small brains and very primitive traits) left about 60,000 years ago (around the time modern humans showed up, which may be a coincidence). * This Viking era [man-made cave in Iceland](https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/05/man-made-viking-era-cave-discovered-in-iceland/143731) might have served as a stall for cattle and horses, but was connected to a wider cave system either way. * [[different strains of humans occupied same places in overlapping manner]] * - [[cave-dwellers]] - [Sacromonte](https://www.5election.com/2015/01/30/sacromonte-community-the-beautiful-gypsy-cave-village-were-you-can-live-for-free/) in Spain has rock-carved homes still inhabited today.