rock shelter

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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

But the original paleolithic man did not get beyond the cavern or the rock-shelter.

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

My rock-shelter is hedged about with prickly thorns and thistles….

From The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) by Slouschz, Nahum

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

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