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Ancient Americans made art deep within the dark zones of caves throughout the Southeast

  • Written by Jan Simek, Professor of Anthropology, University of Tennessee
imageThe author examining pictographs in 60th Unnamed Cave, Tennessee.Alan Cressler

On a cold winter’s day in 1980, a group of recreational cavers entered a narrow, wet stream passage south of Knoxville, Tennessee. They navigated a slippery mud slope and a tight keyhole through the cave wall, trudged through the stream itself, ducked through...

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