The Largest Cave Drawings in North America Have Been Found in Alabama

ARTnews ^ | May 4, 2022 | SHANTI ESCALANTE-DE MATTEI

[ifinnegan]

“It is unknown what the figures represented to the Native Americans who made them in the Middle Woodland period of some 2,000 years ago.”

Actually, that’s not that long ago, all things considered.

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No it’s not. Considering this:

“They are not recognisable characters from ethnographically recorded Southeast Native American stories, nor from archaeologically known iconographic...”

It seems a genocide took place and the group that drew these was wiped out.

[RatRipper]

Early snake handler religion in northeast AL . . . Dated a gal from up that way in college. . . .

[Red Badger]

Cave Porn.....................

[Robert DeLong]

Notice where his right hand is also. 🙂

[week 71]

I did not know there were Ents in North America

[Tell It Right]

When the Europeans arrived her in the late 15th century, the indigenous Americans were literally still in the stone age. LOL

[bert]

Copper was known and worked but not widely available. No bronze though

[Tell It Right]

I didn’t know the American indians used copper. Any idea which tribes and what it was for?

[bert]

The native copper came from up around Lake Superior I believe and was exported down the Mississippi river. The use as I recall was mostly ornamental.

In Chaco Canyon New Mexico and other anacazi sites, copper bells originating in Mexico were found.

There was a workshop at Cahokia that worked copper. That was where I became aware of the fact

At the zenith, Cahokia was larger than London.

[bert]

Ooops...... here’s the link

https://lostworlds.org/cahokia-mounds-reveal-vast-copper-workshop/

[Yardstick]

Clearly a shamanic foreshadowing of the Spinal Tap airport scene.

[Colt1851Navy]

There is a big cave up the road in Bangor Alabama where there was an illegal bar selling moonshine for years and years. The cave was a great big thing and the thing was an organized business at one time, but I don’t recollect any Truman Capote types around here that might have created the pornography. I knew some Wild Indians from around there of the Deliverance persuasion however.

[Lurker]

One of the best bands in history.

L

[MikeSteelBe]

I thought you were talking about “Spinal Tap” at first.

[MikeSteelBe]

Are we going to do Stonehenge tonight?

[Reily]

Not exactly Lascaux drawings are they?

[blam]

"Heads up."

Got it thanks,

Lots of caves in Alabama.

[Trillian]

The Critic

[nickcarraway]

Orson Welles