An ancient Native American pictograph found on a rock in northern Alabama features a long curving line and a faded circle behind.
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Southern cave art —
This cave painting found in eastern Tennessee, depicting a hunter with a four-legged animal, is more than 6,000 years old -- the oldest yet known in North America.
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Southern cave art —
An image of a horned owl was impressed into the wet clay of Mud Glyph Cave, Tennessee, around 1300 AD.
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Southern cave art —
A cross? A comet? A star? This symbol, found in Dunbar Cave in Clarksville, Tennessee, is commonly seen in religious iconography from the 1300s.
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Southern cave art —
An upright bird figure has arms and hands and holds ceremonial weapons aloft, flanked by axes with blades coming out of human faces, in this Tennessee cave painting from the 14th century.