A rock shelter is a shallow cave-like opening at the base of a bluff or cliff. Another term is rockhouse.
Rock shelter
Rock shelters form because a rock stratum such as sandstone that's resistant to erosion and weathering has formed a cliff or bluff, but a softer stratum, more subject to erosion and weathering, lies just below the resistant stratum, and thus undercuts the cliff.
This same phenomenon commonly occurs at waterfalls, and, indeed, many rock shelters are found under waterfalls.
Rock shelters are often important archeologically. Because rock shelters form natural shelters from the weather, primitive humans often used them as living-places, and left behind trash, tools, and other artifacts.
To assist in designing the walkways and determining their placement, it was necessary to delineate the larger extent of buried archeological features discovered during limited test excavations conducted in 1986 by the Arkansas Archeological Survey.
At Rockhouse Cave, electrical resistance data were collected using a Geoscan RM15 configured in parallel twin mode, in which some of the probes inject an electrical current into the ground and others measure the voltage (figure 5).
The underlying bedrock of Rockhouse Cave's floor appears to have a generally concave shape with shallow soil development at the shelter periphery and ever deeper deposits with increasing distance away from the walls.
The Rockhouse Foundation is a U.S. chartered non-profit organization dedicated to initiate and support programs, services and organizations that combat the effects of endemic poverty in rural and inner city Jamaica.
The Rockhouse Foundation facilitates contributions of expertise, goods, services and capital to improve the human condition for people in need, with a special emphasis on children.
The Rockhouse Hotel underwrites all administrative expenses of the Foundation.
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