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- Deep in a damp cave in northern Alabama, archaeologists have made a giant discovery. On a subterranean ceiling just half a meter high, researchers have uncovered the largest cave art discovered in North America: intricate etchings of humanlike figures and a serpent, carved by Native Americans more than 1000 years ago.
www.science.org/content/article/largest-native-american-cave-art-revealed-3d-scans
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Sep 29, 2021 · On 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...
- Jan Simek
May 4, 2022 · Roughly 1,000 years ago, artists working by the light of burning reeds carved figures into the ceiling of a cave in what’s now Alabama, crouching in the narrow space below. Over the millennium...
Oct 14, 2021 · In 1980, a group of recreational cavers discovered the first ancient cave art site in North America in the dark zones of caves located south of Knoxville, Tennessee. Jan Simek, professor of anthropology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, recently explained the history and importance of this form of art in The Conversation.
May 5, 2022 · Rock art in the dark zone of caves beyond the natural light in cave mouths was only discovered in North America in 1979, more than a century after its discovery in Europe (at Altamira in northern Spain).
May 3, 2022 · Traced in the mud ceiling of the cave by intrepid artists and preserved for a millennium before being discovered, the massive etchings were created—and discovered—in an unforgiving setting....
May 5, 2022 · For hundreds of years, the largest-known cave art images in the United States hid in plain sight. Made of mud and drawn onto a low ceiling 1,000 years ago, the figures were difficult to discern with the naked eye. But a new study using technology called 3D photogrammetry, has revealed these ancient images in shocking detail.
May 3, 2022 · Using a 3D scanning process known as photogrammetry, archeologists have uncovered five previously unknown giant cave paintings.
