rock shelter
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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 rock was discovered in the San Lázaro rock shelter in Segovia, Spain.
From BBC ● May 27, 2025
"Assessments found no structural damage to the rock shelter itself, and no damage to cultural materials," Cecile Thaxter, a Rio Tinto vice president, said in a webcast on Monday.
From Reuters ● Oct. 10, 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
