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Shallow overhangs lived under for millennia, with the deposits to prove it.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Middle to Late Archaic (3000–2000 BCE) · Lower Pecos hunter-foragers (related to Coahuiltecan)
Texas Lower Pecos 7.6-m shaman-antlered polychrome 3000–2000 BCE, Pecos style type.
🇺🇸 United States · Cave
Lovelock Culture (2500 BCE – 1830 CE) · Lovelock / Paiute-Shoshone
Lovelock Cave in Nevada, United States is a Lovelock Culture (2500 BCE – 1830 CE) cave attributed to Lovelock / Paiute-Shoshone culture.
🇨🇦 Canada · Cave
Late Pleistocene (24,000 – 12,000 BP) · Beringian Paleo-Indian
Bluefish Caves in Yukon, Canada is a Late Pleistocene (24,000 – 12,000 BP) cave attributed to Beringian Paleo-Indian culture.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Cave
Middle Stone Age (120–55 ka) · Early Homo sapiens (MSA I–Howiesons Poort)
Klasies River Main site (KRM) is 5 caves/shelters on Tsitsikamma coast (34°06′29″S 24°23′24″E) with 120–55 ka MSA deposits containing anatomically modern human fossils (KRM 13400 mandible 115 ka),…
🇿🇦 South Africa · Cave
Early Stone Age to Later Stone Age (2 Ma–14 ka) · Oldowan → Acheulean → MSA → LSA (Homo erectus to sapiens)
Wonderwerk Cave is the 140 m phreatic tube on Kuruman Hills with 2 Ma to 14 ka stratigraphy spanning Oldowan to Late Stone Age and earliest fire (1 Ma ash, burnt bone).
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Cave
Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) · Ancestral Pueblo
Kala Town Grotto in Northern Tigray, Ethiopia is a Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) cave attributed to Ancestral Pueblo culture.
🇰🇷 South Korea · Cave
Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) · Early Bronze Age
Cave of Henthorn in Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea is a Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) cave attributed to Early Bronze Age culture.
🇨🇱 Chile · Cave
Neolithic (6000–3000 BCE) · Neolithic
Sanctuary-Wall Grotto in Coquimbo, Chile is a Neolithic (6000–3000 BCE) cave attributed to Neolithic culture.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Cave
Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) · Jōmon
Sura-Hillfort Grotto in Kairouan Governorate, Tunisia is a Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) cave attributed to Jōmon culture.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Cave
Neolithic (6000–3000 BCE) · Neolithic
Workshop Earthwork Cave in Asir Province, Saudi Arabia is a Neolithic (6000–3000 BCE) cave attributed to Neolithic culture.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Cave
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age
Southfield Grove Grotto in Northern Tigray, Ethiopia is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) cave attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Cave
Moche (100–800 CE) · Moche
Palace Jabal Cave in Aswan Governorate, Egypt is a Moche (100–800 CE) cave attributed to Moche culture.
🇲🇲 Myanmar · Cave
Moche (100–800 CE) · Moche
Cave of Citadel Grove in Magway Region, Myanmar is a Moche (100–800 CE) cave attributed to Moche culture.
🇮🇹 Italy · Cave
Yayoi (300 BCE–300 CE) · Yayoi
Khet-Vale Cave in Sicily, Italy is a Yayoi (300 BCE–300 CE) cave attributed to Yayoi culture.
🇨🇱 Chile · Cave
Ubaid (6500–3800 BCE) · Ubaid
Great Grotto in Coquimbo, Chile is a Ubaid (6500–3800 BCE) cave attributed to Ubaid culture.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Rock shelter
Lagar Velho is a rock shelter in the Lapedo valley, a limestone canyon 13 km from the centre of Leiria, in the municipality of Leiria, in central Portugal.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Cave
Palaeolithic to Iron Age (40000–500 BCE) · Creswellian / Neolithic
Wookey Hole Cave in Somerset, Mendip Hills, United Kingdom is a Palaeolithic to Iron Age (40000–500 BCE) cave attributed to Creswellian / Neolithic culture.
🇮🇳 India · Rock shelter
Anegundi, previously called Kishkindha, is a village in Gangavathi, Koppal district, in the Indian state of Karnataka. It is older than Hampi, situated on the northern bank of the Tungabhadra River.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Cave
Upper Palaeolithic (15000–11000 BCE) · Creswellian
Gough's Cave — Cheddar in Somerset, Cheddar Gorge, United Kingdom is a Upper Palaeolithic (15000–11000 BCE) cave attributed to Creswellian culture.
🇬🇷 Greece · Rock shelter
Late Upper Palaeolithic · Epigravettian
Small Epigravettian rockshelter in the Voidomatis Gorge, 2 km from Klithi, with 14,000–10,000 BP deposits including microliths, bone tools and faunal remains of ibex and chamois.
🇬🇷 Greece · Cave
Middle Palaeolithic to Neolithic · Mousterian / Upper Palaeolithic / Neolithic
Western chambers and exterior talus of Theopetra Cave, whose 130,000-year sequence documents Middle Palaeolithic to Neolithic.
🇪🇸 Spain · Rock shelter
Late Pleistocene
The Abrigo de la Quebrada is an archaeological site in the municipality of Chelva, in the Spanish Province of Valencia, ca. 65 km northwest of the city of Valencia.
