rock shelter

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

From The Story of Evolution by McCabe, Joseph

Isak had a hard time, with cold at nights, for a while; he tried burying himself in the hay under the rock-shelter, tried to bed down for himself with the cows.

From Growth of the Soil by Hamsun, Knut

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

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)