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| America's oldest cave paintings found, dating back SIX THOUSAND YEARS
- The faded images in Tennessee's Cumberland Plateau are believed to be the most widespread collection of such art ever found in the U.S.
- Art works feature mythical creatures, heroic ceremonial actions, religious motifs and a selection of birds and reptiles
By VICTORIA WOOLLASTONPUBLISHED: 09:16 EST, 18 June 2013 Archaeologists have discovered America's oldest cave and rock art that has remained hidden for more than 6,000 years.
The faded images were found in Tennessee's Cumberland Plateau and are believed part of the most widespread collection of such art ever found in the U.S.
Some of the pictures were drawn using shallow lines made with a pointed tool and these show events such as hunting, or depict animals that the Native Americans would have lived with and eaten.
Other images are more elaborate, depicting mythical creatures and representing the Native's spiritual beliefs.
This image shows drawings of canids - wild dog-like creatures that included wolves, foxes and jackals - found in the 60th Unnamed Cave at the site of the Tennessee Cumberland Plateau. Animal images, such as quadrupeds and reptiles, are rare in open air art work but common in dark caves
This cave drawing was found in the open air at Ruby Bluffs and shows 'a probable Mississippian period dancer,' according to a study in archaeology review journal, Antiquity. The image was enhanced, bottom left, using Dstretch - a technology used to accentuate cave pictographs
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2343766/American-cave-rock-art-lay-hidden-SIX-THOUSAND-YEARS-offers-unique-remarkable-insight-Native-American-societies-lived-lives.html#ixzz2WbX00Xj4
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