PICTURE CAVE: UNRAVELING THE MYSTERIES OF THE MISSISSIPPIAN COSMOS

[...]perhaps most spectacularly, a black infilled arm and an associated black outlined leg abutting a horizontal bedding plane crack in the sandstone wall is actually a depiction of a big human figure, creating the overall impression that its head and torso are hiding within the crack. [...]placemen...

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Published in:Southeastern archaeology 2016, Vol.35 (2), p.173
Main Author: Loubser, Johannes H N
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Archaeology
Artists
Charcoal
Native North Americans
Petroglyphs
Pictographs
Stone
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Summary:[...]perhaps most spectacularly, a black infilled arm and an associated black outlined leg abutting a horizontal bedding plane crack in the sandstone wall is actually a depiction of a big human figure, creating the overall impression that its head and torso are hiding within the crack. [...]placements of images within Picture Cave mark the spots where members of a specific religious society interacted with specific spirit beings, many of them terrifying.
ISSN:0734-578X
2168-4723