Agger Rockshelter is a
prehistoric
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rock shelter
A rock shelter (also rockhouse, crepuscular cave, bluff shelter, or abri) is a shallow cave-like opening at the base of a bluff or cliff. In contrast to solutional caves (karst), which are often many miles long or wide, rock shelters are alm ...
located in
Stevenstown, in
La Crosse County
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,
Wisconsin
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,
United States
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.
The shelter faces west and overlooks a tributary of the
Black River.
[Birmingham pp326] During the 1980s and 1990s the
Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center conducted an extensive survey of the Driftless area which led to the discovery of unrecorded rock art.
[Birmingham pp179]
Notes
References
* Birmingham, Robert A. Green, William (2006) ''The Minnesota archaeologist, Volumes 64-65'' Social Science
* Birmingham, Robert A. Green, William (1987) ''The Wisconsin archeologist, Volume 68'' Social Science
Geography of La Crosse County, Wisconsin
Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Wisconsin
Rock shelters in the United States
National Register of Historic Places in La Crosse County, Wisconsin
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