1ST UNNAMED CAVE - A MISSISSIPPIAN PERIOD CAVE ART SITE IN EAST TENNESSEE, USA

Citation
Ch. Faulkner et Jf. Simek, 1ST UNNAMED CAVE - A MISSISSIPPIAN PERIOD CAVE ART SITE IN EAST TENNESSEE, USA, Antiquity, 70(270), 1996, pp. 774-784
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Archaeology,Archaeology
Journal title
ISSN journal
0003598X
Volume
70
Issue
270
Year of publication
1996
Pages
774 - 784
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-598X(1996)70:270<774:1UC-AM>2.0.ZU;2-1
Abstract
The well-protected walls and floors of deep caves are some of the few places where human markings on soft materials - sands, muds, clays - s urvive archaeologically. Since 1979, a special group of caves in the e astern United States has been reported with 'mud-glyphs' or prehistori c drawings etched in wet mud. Here, the seventh of these mud-glyph cav es is described; once again, its iconography connects it to the 'South ern Cult' or 'Southeast Ceremonial Complex' of the Mississippian perio d.