Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Built Environment (hierarchy name)
4. Single Built Works (hierarchy name)
5. single built works (built environment)
6. [single built works by specific type]
7. [single built works by location or context]
8. [single built works by location: topographical]

Narrower term/s

• cave churches [NP]
• cave temples [NP]
• cave dwellings [NP]
• burial caves [NP][+]
  • sepulchral caves

Anotations

Scope note:

Refers to caves that are utilized, generally having been excavated or otherwise altered, for sheltering humans or animals, or for use as storage, worship, or another use. This term may overlap in meaning with "rock-cut architecture," but cave architecture is not necessarily rock-cut, and rock-cut architecture is not necessarily designed around a cave.