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Natural PlacesSite Name: Graham Cave Alternative Name: Graham Cave State ParkCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 60.054 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Nearest Town: Danville
Latitude: 38.905556N Longitude: 91.575278W
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 |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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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 |
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Cave and State Park in Missouri. Excavated in the 1950s, artefacts and other archaeological evidence revealed different periods in man's use of the cave, dating back to as early as 10,000 years ago.
A walk in Graham Cave State Park is a walk through ancient history. To walk through the park’s 386 acres of trees, trails and streams – including the diverse and scenic Graham Caves Glades Natural Area – is to walk in the footsteps of the hunter-gatherers who lived in the area’s caves during the ancient Dalton and Archaic period. Visitors are allowed in the mouth of Graham Cave, and exhibits detail the life researchers believe early inhabitants lived.
Nestled in the hills above the Loutre River in Montgomery County, Graham Cave State Park provides opportunities for both recreation and education. The main feature of the park, Graham Cave, was formed at the point of contact between Jefferson City dolomite and St. Peter sandstone. Gradual water flowing through the sandstone, along with a combined action of wind and freezing, worked to make a relatively large cave. The cave originally extended about 100 feet into the hill, but an accumulation of debris over the years filled the lower part of the cave with about seven feet of deposits. An archlike entrance, 120 feet wide and 16 feet high, provided human and animals with easy access to shelter.
Between 1949 and 1955, the University of Missouri and the Missouri Archaeological Society conducted extensive excavations in the cave with astonishing results. Artifacts found in Graham Cave, associated with charcoal dated by the radiocarbon method, provided important evidence about man's adaptation to the environment at the end of the ice age.
Open every day in Summer and Monday to Friday in Winter
From the Graham Cave State Park website.
Note: Archaeology Days at Graham Cave State Park, September 19th and Washington State Park, Missouri on September 12th
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