I live 7 miles from Sweetwater park. Grew up going there...went down it’s class three and four rapids(Was ignorant at the time)on an innertube when I was 16. At 45, I use a kayak.
Just found the article about the petroglyphs this past weekend.
This entire area was well populated with Mississipian peoples. Sweetwater, The Chattahoochie, Dog River, Annewake creek, and the etowah all hold artifacts. So does the flint down south. Not twenty odd miles north is the Etowah mound complex...which very closely resembles kolomoki in structure and artifacts.
I’d be very interested in hearing y’alls opinion. My non-professional, non-educated opinion is it is the work of peoples living here.
That section of Sweetwater is different and sacred. For most of it’s 45 mile length, Sweetwater creek is a slow moving ditch. Then, through it’s one mile run through the creek, it’s transformed into a wide, rocky, raging mountain river. Interestingly enough, the creek bed through the park is the exposed Brevard fault line, which marks the boundry between the end of hill country and the Appalachains.
Thanks Vigilantcitizen.