cavate

noun

1. A cliffside dwelling made in the living rock by humans.

   “Given the absence of other means of dating the cavates, ceramic dating was the focus of the data collection, but we also recorded vessel form.”

   “The reader may wonder about the significance of the Ahuitzotl figure in a cavate near Los Alamos National Laboratory.”

   “While the cavate was originally carved out generations, if not centuries, before 1680, the ceramics associated with its final substantial occupation (including Kapo Black, Tewa Polychrome, and Glaze F pottery) have led investigators to conclude that Pueblo people reoccupied it sometime between 1680 and 1700.”