Early nomadic humans often sought refuge in caves. Eventually over time their hunting and tool-making skills enabled them to live outside on farm and small villages. But after the climate debacle made farming pointless people with skills left the towns and farm and returned to the caves. My dream starts at the mountain where the survivors left on three distinct tiers: bottom, middle, and top-level caves. most successful survivors now dwelled near the icy mountaintop.
The original cave dwellers originally sought ready-made caverns on the bottom with good access to hunting for prey, fruits, and nuts. Then the more skilled ones went up to the middle mountain level to carve out their own caves. They used primitive tools to enlarge openings and create separate rooms. The mountain was then connected with a system of pathways.
And finally, the younger ones established a line of caves in the upper snow capped region of the mountain. Collectively the mountain became a commerce hub with raw materials gathered at the base, then processed in the middle, and finally assembled into usable clothing, tools and food storage devices. The excess was taken by the top wellers to special sites for trading with extra-terrestrial visitors who left behind sophisticated medicines, digital tools, and directions for all the artifacts that were to following like plumbing, oven cooking, and battery operated consumer goods. Continue reading “Return to the caves”