A study of living conditions and artifacts of indigenous cave-dwellers, including caves in Shannon, Texas, Dent, Phelps, Pulaski, Camden, Miller, Maries, Osage, Cole and Morgan Counties of Missouri ; Lawrence, Martin, Orange, Crawford, and Harrison Counties of Indiana ; Monroe County of Illinois ; Hardin, Hart, Edmonson, Warren, Barren, Monroe, Logan and Todd Counties of Kentucky ; Montgomery, Sullivan, Dledsoe, Sequatchie, Grundy, Franklin, Marion and Hamilton Counties of Tennessee ; Lauderdale, Colbert, Jackson, Dekalb and Marshall Counties of Alabama ; sections in Kansas, Nebraska and Hawaii.

The second part is published in the Forty-fourth annual report of the Bureau of American ethnology. Facsimile reprint originally published : Washington, D.C. : Government Printing Office, 1922.

I. Cave explorations in the Ozark region of Central Missouri --II. Cave explorations in other states --III. Explorations along the Missouri River Bluffs in Kansas and Nebraska --IV. Aboriginal house mounds --V. Archeological work in Hawaii.