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rock shelter

shallow cave-like opening at the base of a bluff or cliff
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Summary

rock shelter ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (316 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • rock shelter is a type of dwelling[2].
  • rock shelter is a type of shelter[3].
  • rock shelter is a type of cave[4].
  • rock shelter is a type of archaeological site[5].
  • rock shelter is a type of buried cultural property[6].
  • rock shelter's Commons category is recorded as Rock shelters[7].
  • rock shelter's said to be the same as is recorded as barma[8].
  • rock shelter's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Rock shelters[9].
  • rock shelter's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as site_type=rock_shelter[10].
  • rock shelter's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as archaeological_site=rock_shelter[11].
  • rock shelter's studied by is recorded as archaeology[12].
  • rock shelter's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000440[13].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include dwelling[2], shelter[3], cave[4], archaeological site[5], and buried cultural property[6].

Why It Matters

rock shelter ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (316 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] It is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

Related Entities

archaeology

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 10w ago · Davileci · 2026-07-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Openstreetmap tag → site_type=rock_shelter, archaeological_site=rock_shelter
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Openstreetmap tag: shelter_type=rock_shelter"
  2. 15w ago · ~2026-37344-54 · 2026-06-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image → Mangup-Kale, Rock shelter, Baba-Dag, Crimea.jpg
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Image: Mangup-Kale, Rock shelter, Baba-Dag, Crimea.jpg"
  3. 17w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-06-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Q140249898
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/36807|batch #36807]]: tag for concrete/abstract disjunction anomaly"
  4. 20w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Thésaurus de la désignation des œuvres architecturales et des espaces aménagés id → 509
    "/* wbsetclaimvalue:1| */ Thésaurus de la désignation des œuvres architecturales et des espaces aménagés id: 509, см. / see [[Template:Autofix|autofix]] на / on [[Property talk:P4980]]"
  5. 20w ago · Rémi sim · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Thésaurus de la désignation des œuvres architecturales et des espaces aménagés id → 509
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Thésaurus de la désignation des œuvres architecturales et des espaces aménagés id: T96-509, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/42482753|abri sous roche (#42482753)"
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