Some 13,000 years ago in the Texas Hill Country, a band of travelers discovered a broad, cave-like shelter in the chalky limestone bluffs above the Sabinal River. Within the shelter's deep recesses, the group found protection from wind and rain and refuge from the large carnivores that roamed the Edwards Plateau and Sabinal River valley.

artifacts:Objects that are created by a human being with cultural and historical significance. The Paleolithic or Old Stone Age originated around 30,000 BCE, lasting until 10,000 BCE, and is separated into three periods: the Lower Paleolithic (the earliest subdivision), Middle Paleolithic, and Upper Paleolithic.

2021年5月18日 · In this gallery, we look at how humans have made their private homes through history. From Denisova caves to Kikuyu huts, we see through archaeological remains, reconstruction images and pottery models what is often frequently lost to the ravages of time: the simpler dwellings of ordinary people.

Local residents of the Ozarks have long known about the Native American artifacts found in the bluff shelters. In part this is because they too made use of the shelters in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Archeologists working in these sites often find evidence of their use as barns, areas for stills, and occasionally even dwellings.

2024年2月5日 · Researchers in Armenia recently uncovered a human shelter filled with artifacts that dates back thousands of years. The ancient dwelling was discovered during the archaeological exploration of...

2 天之前 · Movies, newspaper photos and local settings fueled his imagination, the book recounts, but a key inspiration was Knight, well-known for wildlife art and paleo pieces done for various museums.

2022年6月29日 · Over time, early humans began to gather at hearths and shelters to eat and socialize. As brains became larger and more complex, growing up took longer—requiring more parental care and the protective environment of a home. Expanding social networks led, eventually, to the complex social lives of modern humans.

2021年4月1日 · A study sheds light on early humans' cultural evolution based on the 105,000-year-old artifacts found in a rock shelter on Ga-Mohana Hill, positioned at the edge of South Africa's Kalahari...

Wallacea, the zone of oceanic islands separating the continental regions of Southeast Asia and Australia, has yielded sparse evidence for the symbolic culture of early modern humans. Here we...

  TREES & SHELTER:      Very early humans like australopithecus didn't shelter in caves because of the dangerous animals. Sometimes they made fire to scare off the animals in the caves.