rock shelter

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I also passed a rock-shelter, which served as a permanent home.

From Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan by Lumholtz, Carl

The upper rock-shelter has been dug out or enlarged with a pick.

From Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

The disappearance of the herds caused Fleetfoot and Willow-grouse to leave the rock-shelter.

From The Later Cave-Men by Brown, Howard V.

The rock-shelter and the cave are the homes which men seek from the advancing cold.

From The Story of Evolution by McCabe, Joseph

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