rock shelter

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The new work by Hardy and his colleagues “supports the idea that microscopic residues of strings are preserved in nonwaterlogged rock-shelter deposits of Neandertal age,” Soressi observes.

From Scientific American

Almost all the teeth, including the oldest ones from about 20,000 years ago found at the Batadomba-lena rock-shelter in southwestern Sri Lanka, indicated a diet primarily of food from the rainforest.

From Reuters

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 Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

Grief and the Goat Man peered straight down from a safe rock-shelter, three hundred feet above.

From Project Gutenberg