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1st Unnamed Cave: a Mississippian period cave art site in east Tennessee, USA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Charles H. Faulkner  and
Jan F. Simek
Charles H. Faulkner
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN 37996, USA
Jan F. Simek
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN 37996, USA
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The well-protected walls and floors of deep caves are some of the few places where human markings on soft materials — sands, muds, clays — survive archaeologically. Since 1979, a special group of caves in the eastern United States has been reported with ‘mud-glyphs’ or prehistoric drawings etched in wet mud. Here, the seventh of these mud-glyph caves is described; once again, its iconography connects it to the ‘Southern Cult’ or ‘Southeast Ceremonial Complex’ of the Mississippian period.

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Antiquity , Volume 70 , Issue 270 , December 1996 , pp. 774 - 784
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1996

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