<< Text Pages >> Wilson Butte Cave - Cave or Rock Shelter in United States in The West
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Natural PlacesSite Name: Wilson Butte CaveCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 44.831 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: The West Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Nearest Town: Shoshane Nearest Village: Twin Falls
Latitude: 42.785000N Longitude: 114.214167W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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Wilson Butte Cave is located on the Snake River plain in Jerome County, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as an archeological site. Excavation has shown that native people lived in and around the cave at least 10,000 years ago, possibly as long ago as 15,000 years.
Artifacts found here provide the oldest evidence of human presence on the Snake River Plain and are among the oldest such evidence in all of North America. Archeologists are fairly certain that the reason the cave was settled so early is that it was used as a base from which to hunt bison. Strong connections have been found to the Fremont culture and the Shoshone people, who lived there after the Fremont peoples. Vegetation in the region was very similar to modern times. Camels and giant ground sloths once roamed this region!
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