Posted on 08/30/2008 1:08:19 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The story begins, as many do, with curiosity. About 20 years ago, two men exploring "Picture Cave" found paintings on the rock walls and sent hand-drawn reproductions to archaeologists Jim Duncan and Carol Diaz-Granados.
"These things are fake!" Duncan remembered thinking at the time. As it turned out, the nature and location of the drawings contradicted widely held beliefs about Mississippian culture.
The figures on the walls of the cave in east-central Missouri now provide crucial details of the prehistoric timeline of the region. And there's recent evidence that the paintings in Picture Cave predate the Cahokia Mounds as the birthplace of what archaeologists refer to as the Mississippian period...
A specialist hired by Duncan and Diaz-Granados analyzed tiny amounts of organic matter in the pigments of the paint and dated them to 975 to 1025 AD. One drawing was dated to 800 AD...
The pictures depict weapons and community hunting tactics. Duncan interprets other paintings as symbols of supernatural heroes such as the winged bird-man, "Morning Star," and the hero twins known as "Children of the Sun."
(Excerpt) Read more at columbiamissourian.com ...
These were drawn to represent the cave paintings by Dr. Carol Diaz-Granados in a 1993 dissertation. The letters "BK" represent black drawings, while "R" depicts Red drawings. The paintings show the bison hunting that took place in the Mississipian Period. -- Courtesy of Dr. Carol Diaz-Granados
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Assuming the pigments are local, why not 1000 AD, 1200 AD, 1600 AD. I’ve seen almost identical drawings, circa 1750, in the early Documents of New York and cave drawings are also found in New York.
Bison...I am not seeing bison.
I am seeing one guy shooting at what could be a man and a woman.
[i kid]
those are some skinny animals....
One would think in all those years they'd think to bring along a camera.
Yeah.
Funny how as soon as a UFO shows up cameras vanish.
Tricksy aliens, and
tricksy wild Indians...
Kewl thread!! My homestate. thanks!
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