Grief and the Goat Man peered straight down from a safe rock-shelter, three hundred feet above. ❋ Unknown (2010)
It was used as a rock-shelter mountain monastery from about the 5th century BC, with caves prepared and donated by devotees to the Buddhist Sangha. ❋ Unknown (2008)
How Harelson landed in jail charged with attempted aggravated murder is a story that stretches back to 1980, when he first began illegally excavating Elephant Mountain Cave, a remote rock-shelter on government land in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. ❋ Unknown (2003)
For his part, Harelson insists he dug only a "test hole" at the site in hopes that it would interest archaeologists in the rock-shelter. ❋ Unknown (2003)
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. ❋ Unknown (2003)
A pathological human jaw from Bau de l'Aubesier, a rock-shelter in southeastern France, shows that early Neandertals cared for those who were incapacitated. ❋ Unknown (2001)
The skull and, in some cases, long bones are removed and placed in a family ancestral shrine, often on a ledge beneath an overhanging rock or in a rock-shelter or cave. ❋ Unknown (2001)
Ancient human figures painted in the Linton rock-shelter in South Africa's Eastern Cape Province by ancestors of the San people have been incorporated in the country's new coat of arms. ❋ Unknown (2001)
This conclusion prompted me to start a salvage excavation of the site, which we called the Lagar Velho rock-shelter after the ruin of an ancient olive-oil press at its entrance. ❋ Unknown (2000)
The student showed them a few small, red anthropomorphic figures in a style characteristic of the Copper Age (fourth and third millennia B.C.) painted on the back wall of a shallow rock-shelter on the north side of the valley. ❋ Unknown (2000)
The bones of a four-year-old child, buried for millennia in the rear of a rock-shelter in the Lapedo Valley 85 miles north of Lisbon, Portugal, comprised the first complete Palaeolithic skeleton ever dug in Iberia. ❋ Unknown (2000)
Analysis of the skeletal remains of a four-year-old child buried in a Portuguese rock-shelter 25,000 to 24,500 years ago has yielded startling evidence that early modern humans and Neandertals may have interbred. ❋ Unknown (1999)
Analysis of the skeletal remains of a four-year-old child buried some 25,000 years ago in a Portuguese rock-shelter suggests early modern humans and Neandertals may have interbred. ❋ Unknown (1999)
Archaeologists searching for rock art in the Lapedo Valley, 85 miles north of Lisbon, found the burial in a rock-shelter whose earthen floor had been churned by a farmer's bulldozer six years before. ❋ Unknown (1999)
Clambering around the side of a mountain, I spotted a prominent outcrop with a rock-shelter at its base. ❋ Unknown (1999)
One such day in 1992, a colleague and I were recording ancient paintings on the wall of a remote rock-shelter. ❋ Unknown (1999)
More controversial are current reports, widely publicized in the world media and published in the journal Antiquity, that Jinmium, a sandstone rock-shelter in Australia's Northern Territory, has stone artifacts more than 100,000 years old. ❋ Unknown (1997)
Señor de Tila, who is venerated both in the local church and in a nearby rock-shelter, which contains a large soot-blackened stalagmite believed by townspeople to be a representation of Christ. ❋ Unknown (1997)
A deep cut in a woman's skull from the French rock-shelter of Cro-Magnon is now known to have been caused by a workman's pick in 1868. ❋ Unknown (1997)
The disappearance of the herds caused Fleetfoot and Willow-grouse to leave the rock-shelter. ❋ Katharine Elizabeth Dopp (N/A)
