Posted on 05/06/2022 10:44:11 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Archaeologists in Alabama have discovered the longest known painting created by early Indigenous Americans, a new study finds. Indigenous Americans crafted this 1,000-year-old record-breaking image — of a 10-foot-long (3 meters) rattlesnake — as well as other paintings, out of mud on the walls and ceiling of a cave, likely to depict spirits of the underworld, the researchers said.
The cave has hundreds of cave paintings and is considered the richest place for Native American cave art in the American Southeast, the researchers said. To investigate its historic art, the team turned to photogrammetry, a technique that involves taking hundreds of digital images in order to build a virtual 3D model. Using this method, the researchers spotted five previously unknown giant cave paintings, known as glyphs...
The record-setting glyph sports a diamond pattern, indicating that it may depict a diamondback rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox), a creature considered sacred by the Indigenous peoples of the American southeast, the researchers said. These peoples constructed large earthen mounds, used for a variety of purposes, including rituals according to Smithsonian Magazine, and to be closer to the spirits of the upper world, while caves were viewed as the opposite — routes to the underworld.
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Xerox copy no doubt. 😂🙌
Not indigenous, showed up here like everyone else. Go their asses beat and their land taken away just like what’s happening to us today.
As an aside, photogrametry(sp) was used for some investigative info collecting near the end of the space shuttle program cryogenic loading processes on the external tank.
You know, that shortens itself to "Injuns" even more easily than "Indians" does.
Do you think Marxists realize how rayciss they are?
I guess the rich ones do, and the rest are the pawns (such as college junior professors) who think they're freaking bishops.
in·dig·e·nous
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adjective: indigenous
originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native.
I think that they are seeing things that aren’t there.
“Indigenous” comes from a Latin word. Can’t they use an indigenous word for “indigenous”? Enough cultural appropriation already!
That’s what Native Americans are, indigenous. They are a genetic population that evolved in the New World. As far as populations worldwide go, they are very distinct and ancient.
In anthropology indigenous means first people to inhabit an area. It has nothing to do with how long they’ve been there.
Ah! so that’s a snake!
They may have evolved, but they didn't spontaneously show up in the New World. It's my understanding that they originally came from Asia across the Bearing land bridge. I could be wrong.
Prehistoric shading. Nice.
Where did the indigenous people come from?
Nobody outside of Africa is native/indigenous to any area by your definition. That’s not what indigenous means.
Okay.
They sure that wasn’t a pre-school or something?
weird looking rattle snake
LasCaux cave artists were better!
Must be that French art school they attended.
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