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

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.