Bell Coulee Shelter is a
prehistoric
Prehistory, also known as pre-literary history, is the period of human history between the use of the first stone tools by hominins 3.3 million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems. The use of ...
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, rock shelters are almost alway ...
for ancient people, located in
Mindoro, Wisconsin
Mindoro is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in La Crosse County, Wisconsin, United States, in the town of Farmington. It is part of the La Crosse Metropolitan Statistical Area. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the ...
, in
La Crosse County, Wisconsin
La Crosse County is a county located in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. At the 2020 census, the population was 120,784. Its county seat is La Crosse. La Crosse County is included in the La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN Metropolitan Statistical Area with ...
.
The Bell Coulee Shelter is a rock art site listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It contains
petroglyphs, where a hard object was used to carve or incise a rock surface, and/or pictographs, paintings on the rock using natural pigments.
References
External links
Article about Bell Coulee Shelter and Samuels' Cave, National Speleological Society, Inc. March 2005
Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Wisconsin
Geography of La Crosse County, Wisconsin
Native American history of Wisconsin
Rock shelters in the United States
National Register of Historic Places in La Crosse County, Wisconsin
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