Historical Marker
Wolf Rock Cave
Leesville, Vernon County · Louisiana
Wolf Rock Cave is less a cave than two small rock overhangs above Bundick's Creek, cut by erosion from the Catahoula Formation, sandstone and clay laid down by rivers 24 to 30 million years ago, when beaches and deltas lay about 125 miles farther inland. It is the only known rock shelter in Louisiana that early people used. Late Archaic hunter-gatherers came for chert and sometimes stayed briefly; their kit included bone needles, awls, fishhooks, antler atlatl hooks and baskets for seeds and nuts. A short trail beside the creek leads in from a parking area.
Where it stands
30.97218, -93.19248 · Directions
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