<< Text Pages >> Antelope Cave - Cave or Rock Shelter in United States in The Southwest
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Natural PlacesSite Name: Antelope CaveCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 27.118 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: The Southwest Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Nearest Town: Las Vegas, NV Nearest Village: Colorado City, AZ
Latitude: 36.889000N Longitude: 113.256W
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 |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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Cave or Rock Shelter in Mohave County, Arizona.The site is believed to have been a sporadically-occupied hunting and processing locale during Archaic, Basketmaker, and Pueblo periods. Recent radiocarbon dates of samples from mid 20th C excavations indicate the major Ancestral Pueblo (a early phase referred to as the Virgin Anasazi) occupation of the cave between 680 AD and 960 AD.
Despite the barren surroundings of the shelter, with water sources and trees miles away, excavations in 1959 - 1960 of the cave's midden revealed the its inhabitants were using the cave as a site for processing jackrabbits. The extensive collection of artifacts at UCLA have provided later researchers the means of investigating diet and resource strategies of the early Puebloans.
Note: 1,200-Year-Old Pouches Found in Arizona Cave Contain Prehistoric ‘Chewing Tobacco,’ Study Finds. See comment.
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