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
