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In the late 1200s, people of the Mogollon culture made the caves above Cliff Dweller Creek, in New Mexico, their home. They built rooms, crafted pottery and raised children in the cliff dwellings for 1 or 2 generations. By 1300, the Mogollon had moved on, leaving the walls behind
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The White House Ruins in Arizona's Canyon de Chelly National Monument is an 11th-century CE Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings built against a 600-foot sandstone wall. Accessible via a 1.5-mile trail, the site features about 80 rooms, named for the white plaster used on the upper walls
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Hands at the Cuevas de las Manos upon Río Pinturas, near the town of Perito Moreno in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. It is named for the hundreds of paintings of hands stenciled, in multiple collages, on the rock walls. The art in the cave is dated between 7,300 BC and 700 AD
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Guyaju Caves are the ruins of a cave complex, in China, that may have served as dwellings for a fortified community, probably between 1000 and 2000 years ago. The origins of the community are mysterious due to uncertainty about the founding people and later disappearance of the community
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In the late 6th century CE, Greece was frequently attacked by Slavs and Avars. So a group of people and children took refuge in the Andritsa cave, taking with them lamps, vases, coins and a bronze cross, but for reasons unknown they were trapped inside and their refuge became their grave
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A miniature from the fol. 82v of the Book of Hours, depicting a hedgehog with grapes on its quills. It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children. From Paris, ca. 1420-1425 CE, now housed at the Morgan Library
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The top image is a reconstruction of the Medieval Louvre which was built by Philip II in 1190. Between 1528-1660, it was generally demolished to make way for expanding the Louvre Palace, while some parts of the castle's foundations were incorporated in construction of the later palace
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A child mummy, whose body is partially covered by a textile made of yucca fibers and feathers, found in La Cueva de la Ventana in Chihuahua, Mexico. Based on dental development, the child was between one and a half and two years old when he died. Mogollon culture, 1063-1103 CE
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A ceramic whistle, from Peru, which depicts an individual with their hands near their mouth as if they were shouting or calling. A child appears above the person’s head as if being carried on his or her shoulders. Cupisnique culture, 200–500 BCE, now housed at the Metropolitan Museum
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