Ancient Americans made art deep within the dark zones of caves throughout the Southeast
- Written by Jan Simek, Professor of Anthropology, University of Tennessee
The author examining pictographs in 60th Unnamed Cave, Tennessee.Alan CresslerOn a cold winter’s day in 1980, a group of recreational cavers entered a narrow, wet stream passage south of Knoxville, Tennessee. They navigated a slippery mud slope and a tight keyhole through the cave wall, trudged through the stream itself, ducked through...
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