Sacred landscapes of the south-eastern USA: prehistoric rock and cave art in Tennessee

• Autores: Jan F. Simek, Alan Cressler, Nicholas P. Herrmann, Sarah C. Sherwood
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 87, Nº 336, 2013, págs. 430-446
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Systematic field exploration in Tennessee has located a wealth of new rock art�some deep in caves, some in the open air. The authors show that these have a different repertoire and use of colour, and a different distribution in the landscape�the open sites up high and the caves down low. The landscape has been reorganised on cosmological terms by the pre-Columbian societies. This research offers an exemplary rationale for reading rock art beyond the image and the site.