Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1901 — 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 Langenstein ten caves liewn 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 first house was constructed only 40 years ago by a young married couple >vho' were too poor to pay their rent in 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 cheeks vouch for the truth of their statements.