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In ancient writing, apparently the best known of the African cave-dwellers were the inhabitants of the "Troglodyte country" (Ancient Greek: Τρωγλοδυτική) on the coast of the Red Sea, as far north as the Greek port of Berenice, of whom an account was preserved by Diodorus Siculus from Agatharchides of Cnidus, and by Artemidorus Ephesius in Strabo.
A troglodyte is a human cave dweller, from the Greek trogle 'hole, mouse-hole' and dyein 'go in, dive in'. Troglodyte and derived forms may also refer to: Historiography
Cave dwellings in Amboise, Loire Valley, France Kandovan village, Iran. 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.
Le Moustier Neanderthals (Charles R. Knight, 1920). The caveman is a stock character representative of primitive humans in the Paleolithic.The popularization of the type dates to the early 20th century, when Neanderthals were influentially described as "simian" or "ape-like" by Marcellin Boule [1] and Arthur Keith.
A troglobite (or, formally, troglobiont) is an animal species, or population of a species, strictly bound to underground habitats, such as caves.These are separate from species that mainly live in above-ground habitats but are also able to live underground (eutroglophiles), and species that are only cave visitors (subtroglophiles and trogloxenes). [1]
Wrens are a family, Troglodytidae, of small brown passerine birds. The family includes 96 species and is divided into 19 genera.All species are restricted to the New World except for the Eurasian wren that is widely distributed in the Old World.
Cave dwelling Jews, also cave Jews or troglodyte Jews (from the French phrase Juifs troglodytes), were Jewish communities that dwelled in man-made caves in the mountains. The best known communities of this type existed in the Gharyan Plateau ("Jebel Gharyan") area of the Nafusa Mountains in Libya , and are commonly referred to as Gharyan Jews .
The species name troglodytes is a reference to the Troglodytae (literally "cave-goers"), an African people described by Greco-Roman geographers. Blumenbach first used it in his De generis humani varietate nativa liber ("On the natural varieties of the human genus") in 1776, [ 15 ] [ 16 ] Linnaeus 1758 had already used Homo troglodytes for a ...