The 8,800-Year-Old Man Found 1,000 Feet Inside A Colorado Cave — And The DNA Test That Linked Him To A Native American Founder Lineage
The cave itself, at this altitude, may have served specific purposes related to high-altitude use.
Caves provide shelter from the extreme weather that can develop rapidly above treeline in the Rocky Mountains — thunderstorms, blizzards, sudden temperature drops — in an environment where finding shelter can be a matter of survival.
A cave known to the local population as a reliable shelter would have been a valuable landmark, and a community that knew Hourglass Cave existed would have had a specific resource in a landscape that was otherwise largely exposed.
Whether the Hourglass Cave man was in the cave for shelter, for another practical purpose, or for something not primarily practical is the question that persists.
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