Taking the tube in modern London means using the subway system for transportation. Going down the tube in Holocene-Era Saudi Arabia probably referred to employing underground tunnels for temporary shelter.
A new study in the journal PLoS One paints a picture of how human herders lived over the past 7,000 years in a sometimes harsh desert environment. That lifestyle has remained relatively unknown due to poor preservation of organic remains in the region’s arid conditions, until the recent study.
A team of archeologists turned to a lava tube network about 75 miles north of Medina hoping to find traces of living matter. The Saudi Geological Survey has spent the last few decades locating and mapping cave and lava tube sites across the country, including one they called Umm Jirsan.
A team of archeologists read reports about the area and chose it for further exploration, because the tunnels would protect organic ...
