rock shelter

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The storms that tore through Dawlish in 2014 prompted a five-phase project to build a new sea wall in the town, and a large rock shelter just down the line.

From BBC • Feb. 14, 2026

The remains were excavated from a rock shelter near present-day Bogotá and date back roughly 5,500 years.

From Science Daily • Jan. 26, 2026

The blast on Aug. 6 led to the fall of a Pilbara scrub tree and one square metre of rock from the overhang of a rock shelter estimated to have been inhabited for 40,000-50,000 years.

From Reuters • Oct. 3, 2023

The ornaments were discovered about 30 years ago at a rock shelter called Santa Elina in central Brazil.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 11, 2023

The North American site that currently enjoys the strongest credentials as a possible pre-Clovis site is Meadowcroft rock shelter, in Pennsylvania, yielding reported human-associated radiocarbon dates of about 16,000 years ago.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond