05-05-2022, 08:37 PM
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world...71688.html
America’s largest cave drawings, which date back more than 1,000 years, have been discovered in a secret Alabama location.
A team of researchers used 3D scanning to reveal the etchings of humanlike figures and a serpent carved into the rock by Native Americans.
Over the years the artwork had become covered in mud and became almost invisible the human eye, and researchers say that the designs, which includes an 11ft long diamondback rattlesnake, may represent spirits of the dead.
“They are either people dressed in regalia to look like spirits, or they are spirits,” said archaeologist Jan Simek, a professor of anthropology at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
The archaeologist is the lead author of a research paper that was published in the journal Antiquity on Tuesday.
To be honest, 1000 years isn't very old for cave drawings: some of them date back 10,000 years or more . But, I guess hunter-gatherer lifestyles survived later in some parts of the world.
Still, there doesn't seem to be much left other than the basic outline... I wonder what these would have looked like when they were new?
America’s largest cave drawings, which date back more than 1,000 years, have been discovered in a secret Alabama location.
A team of researchers used 3D scanning to reveal the etchings of humanlike figures and a serpent carved into the rock by Native Americans.
Over the years the artwork had become covered in mud and became almost invisible the human eye, and researchers say that the designs, which includes an 11ft long diamondback rattlesnake, may represent spirits of the dead.
“They are either people dressed in regalia to look like spirits, or they are spirits,” said archaeologist Jan Simek, a professor of anthropology at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
The archaeologist is the lead author of a research paper that was published in the journal Antiquity on Tuesday.
To be honest, 1000 years isn't very old for cave drawings: some of them date back 10,000 years or more . But, I guess hunter-gatherer lifestyles survived later in some parts of the world.
Still, there doesn't seem to be much left other than the basic outline... I wonder what these would have looked like when they were new?
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