The Hourglass Cave man, if he was in the high country for hunting-related reasons, was in terrain that offered real rewards in addition to real risks.

The high-altitude large game animals would have been accessible in summer months, and the knowledge of their movements and behavior would have been valuable.

But the cave itself offered nothing in terms of direct hunting advantage.

It is not a hunting blind.

It is not a place from which game can be ambushed.

Whatever brought the man into the cave’s deep interior, it was not the immediate pursuit of game.

The Rocky Mountain Pre-Clovis And Early Holocene Context