Modern Lives, Ancient Caves

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National Geographic

Science, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 2 November 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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There's a lost continent waiting to be explored, and it’s right below our feet. We’ll dig into the deep, human relationship to the underground, and why we understand it from an instinctive point of view — but not so much from a physical one. (Hint: we’re afraid of the dark.) National Geographic photographer, Tamara Merino, will take us subterranean in Utah, Australia, and Spain where modern-day cave dwellers teach us how to escape the heat. For more information on this episode, visit natgeo.com/overheard Want more? Go belowground with National Geographic Explorer Tamara Merino to see how these communities have been living—quite comfortably—for a very long time. In Vietnam photojournalist and National Geographic Explorer Martin Edström created 360 images of the world’s largest cave, Son Doong. It’s so big that a forest grows inside of it. Ever zip-line to a remote island? Cartographers did, 30 miles west of San Francisco. What did they see when they mapped the hard-to-reach landform known as the Farallon Islands? Caves. China is home to some of the most intricate cave systems on the planet. These explorers used a laser scanner to capture never before seen images of undocumented caves. Also explore: South Dakota is famous among cavers for its web of cave mazes. Take a look at what they’ve found under the Black Hills. If you like what you hear and want to support more content like this, please consider a National Geographic subscription. Go to natgeo.com/exploremore to subscribe today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.3	They had wanted to move out of the caves into more permanent English-built structures.
0:43.5	The caves were only a temporary place where the first settlers arrived in.
0:50.0	It's the year 1681.
0:52.7	The hours of William Penn have arrived in the New World from England looking for religious
0:56.8	freedom.
0:57.8	Once here on the banks of the Delaware River, they create homes out of the earth itself,
1:03.6	in caves.
1:05.0	The settlers there in Clonation was to build on a borderfront, and that's what they did.
1:12.9	Historian Harry Kira Kodas describes those early days.
1:16.7	The future Americans settled in these holes which had already been there by the river for
1:23.4	the possible catching of muskrats by the Indians.
1:29.2	This small community, started in those caves, will very shortly become the city of Philadelphia,
1:34.6	the first capital of the United States.
1:37.1	The Quakers eventually moved out, but the caves continued to be used for many decades
1:41.5	as the city grew.
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