In a location in northern Alabama lies the 19th Unnamed Cave. The cave is 80-foot wide and leads to a long tunnel where the ceiling and floor draw closer and closer together. Far from the entrance of the tunnel artwork can be seen with the pockets of daylight that reaches through.
The artwork within the cave consists of abstract shapes and lines, reptiles, animals, and humanlike figures created by Native American artists between 660 and 949 C.E.
Jan Simek, an archeologist at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and her colleagues have been documenting cave sites for the past several decades. They discovered that the 19th cave has more images than what is visible to the naked eye. Recently they have utilized 3-D scans of the cave revealing giant figures such as life-sized drawings of humans and an 11-foot long diamondback rattlesnake.
Original post by Megan Gannon/Smithsonian Magazine
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