rock shelter
Example Sentences
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Grief and the Goat Man peered straight down from a safe rock-shelter, three hundred feet above.
From A Son Of The Sun by London, Jack
A human parietal with a piece missing that had evidently been taken out, was found beneath the rock-shelter of Entre-Roches near Angouleme.
From Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples by D'Anvers, N.
That the upper story took its name from the rock-shelter may be further illustrated.
From A Study of Pueblo Pottery as Illustrative of Zuñi Culture Growth. Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 467-522 by Cushing, Frank Hamilton
Only one race, however, that named after the rock-shelter of Crô-Magnon in the Dordogne, is represented by a fair number of specimens, namely, about a dozen.
From Progress and History by Marvin, Francis Sydney
The rock-shelter and the cave are the homes which men seek from the advancing cold.
From The Story of Evolution by McCabe, Joseph
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