Too often, we make mistakes and assume that people in the Palaeolithic used caves as settlements – this assumption contains two basic misapprehensions. First of all, people in the Palaeolithic lived and erected their settlements mostly outside, where it is harder to discover them, and only rarely or in extreme situations inhabited such moist and cold places as caves. And secondly, people used the cave for settlement and plenty of other functions in numerous later periods and on numerous different occasions.
