Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1902 — Modern Cave Dwellers. [ARTICLE]

Modern Cave Dwellers.

Cave dwellers, or, to be exact, earth or rock dwellers, are not yet extinct. A traveler who visited the prehistoric cave dwellings near Halberstadt, in the Harz mountains, found In the nearby village of I-angensteln ten caves hewn in the rock and occupied by 40 persons. This little settlement is built on the slope of a rocky hill near the village. The fronts of the dwellings were made by cutting a vertical face In the rock. Each “house" has a door and one window. The flyst house was constructed only 40 years ago by a young married couple who were too poor to pay their rent tn the village. The rock houses are warm In winter and cool in summer. They are quite healthful, according to the testimony of their Inhabitants, whose stout limbs and red ehseks vouch for the truth of their statements.