{"id":1824,"date":"2011-08-08T13:04:36","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T03:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/?p=1824"},"modified":"2011-08-08T13:04:37","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T03:04:37","slug":"tunnels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2011\/08\/tunnels-1824.html","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Tunnel Network"},"content":{"rendered":"

I need to buy the book, for this report from the Daily Mail<\/a> makes it hard to assess whether there truly was a network (from Scotland to Turkey), or if people in various places just dug a few tunnels…<\/p>\n

‘Across Europe there were thousands of them – from the north in Scotland down to the Mediterranean.<\/span><\/p>\n
‘Most are not much larger than big wormholes – just 70cm wide – just wide enough for a person to wriggle along but nothing else.<\/span><\/p>\n
‘They are interspersed with nooks, at some places it’s larger and there is seating, or storage chambers and rooms.<\/span><\/p>\n
‘They do not all link up but taken together it is a massive underground network.’<\/span><\/p>\n
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I understand hiding in tunnels for defensive purposes, but crawling underground for many miles does not make a lot of sense. 10,000 years ago there just wasn’t the population or deforestation of today. Even in WW1 and WW2 it wasn’t hard to get around Europe by foot while avoiding the occupying enemy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I need to buy the book, for this report from the Daily Mail makes it hard to assess whether there truly was a network (from Scotland to Turkey), or if people in various places just dug a few tunnels…
\n‘Across Europe there were thousands of them – from the north in Scotland down to the Mediterranean.
\n‘Most are not much larger than big wormholes – just 70cm wide – just wide enough for a person to wriggle along but nothing else.
\n‘They are interspersed with nooks, at some places it’s larger and there is seating, or storage chambers and rooms.
\n‘They do not all link up but taken together it is a massive underground network.’<\/p>\n
I understand hiding in tunnels for defensive purposes, but crawling underground for many miles does not make a lot of sense. 10,000 years ago there just wasn’t the population or deforestation of today. Even in WW1 and WW2 it wasn’t …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343,316],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient-technology","category-archaeology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1824"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1830,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions\/1830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}