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more images in the full thing: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/discovering-ancient-cave-art-using-3d-photogrammetry-precontact-native-
by h2odragon 5y ago
more images in the full thing: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/discovering-ancient-cave-art-using-3d-photogrammetry-precontact-native-american-mud-glyphs-from-19th-unnamed-cave-alabama/695DFD2980B69D520A56A320D6549E76 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/di...
The highlighted image in this article has, to my eye, a clear phallus they've failed to "highlight". Some of the others are even harder to see without the interpretation assistance.
I have the impression that the New Madrid Earthquakes tore this region up worse than we know. collapsed cave segments might abound as bubbles under the earth we have yet to find; the stories of those quakes suggest to me that there might have been extensive caves around whose collapse was much of the surface quakes.
This area is subtropical jungle; the fecundity and corrosive effect of life in the millineum time scale is awesome. Im amazed that any work of human hands has survived to be found now.