Alabama

Russell Cave

For a lot of years, bands of prehistoric Indians came to the area we know today as Russell Cave. The cave provided good shelter for them. The surrounding forest produced food, tools, and fuel for their fires, which made it possible for them to live.

Inhabitants of the cave shelter continued from the earliest known people to inhabit the southeastern United States, until the time of European explorers. The inhabitants had to adapt to their surroundings.

The people left behind big clues to their special way of life. The clues help us to have a better understanding of the people who have were on North America before us the.