1000 year old Native American Petroglyphs in Tennessee
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- Опубліковано 31 жов 2022
- Come along with me as I hike out to a sandstone rock shelter here on the Cumberland Plateau that contains 1,000-year-old Native American petroglyphs. This shelter was used by the late woodland and early Mississippian Native Americans and is the only excavated petroglyph site in the state of Tennessee. It was excavated by Dr. Duane King in 1974. 752 shards of pottery and numerous points were found here during the excavation and it is believed this was a ritual or ceremony site. The shelter contains petroglyphs of deer tracks, turkey tracks, and even linear grooves that are associated with vertical shafts we cavers call pits.
Tn resident, thanks for showing and educating others on our great state!!
Sweet! Thank you.
I’m sure you probably have but, the peacefulness insect sounds make me want to just sit in there, close my eyes and try to let my mind take me back to the time when they were there!!! It’s hard to imagine how it would have been that long ago. No technology, fewer people and just… ahh! Thank you for sharing your video, it is very relaxing and BEAUTIFUL!
Thank you and oh yes, to just sit there and listen. It is such a peaceful spot.
@@tag_caver Spend the night, bring camera.
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Yes luv! Absolutely love to do that in the woods on my property, nothing like it,fireflies, crickets singing ❤️
Usually that time of year, late September through the first half of November in the Southern woodlands it sounds like that, quiet with lots of soothing crickets around, and we have plenty of warm fronts that time of year to go camping at night.
Your verts & turkey tracks were multi use for sharpening and also wedge building many of the holes were for storage and molding. Poles ran from ground to sandstone holes fixed above. skins were then wrapped. the inner wall hole was the centerline mounts. Many Siberian natives still practise these techniques currently. I live near probably the most significant known mound in the US those also were used to navigate from seasonally. Very cool👍
TY for the input , I value and respect her attempt to interpret the glyphs tremendously but found them very lacking , you kind sir filled in the many blank spaces that were left out of this enjoyable trek.
As a boy growing up in Tennessee you could find huge flint spear points in plowed tobacco fields after a good spring rain. You had about a month between plowing and planting to search. Farmers didn't care but after they plant STAY OUT. I would say that the carvings are a calendar. The long line probably represents the equinox and deer hunting and the autumn full moons as well as the sun's position as the seasons progress. It would be interesting to see if the sun actually beams down on the face of the carvings.
Your love for the Native American people has made you wise.🙏🏻❤️🕊🐾🦌🎄
You were lucky to have that background. We used to find points (mostly bird) after plowing and a spring rain.
Same up here in Illinois! Got a nice collection!
Same here in Oklahoma & Texas border.
Tennessee is so beautiful. Thanks for the video!
It is a beautiful place. We have had a huge influx of people moving here and they are tearing up & developing a lot of Greenspaces. It’s a battle right now. The hospitable culture and wild spaces is what makes it great. Money & greed are what we are fighting.
@@warriorwoman5422 North Alabama to, nothing but nonstop apartment buildings and strip malls, more rock quarries and neighborhoods being built on the sides of mountains.
It is amazing that someone named Ronnie or ZGA have not spray painted the whole cave
I'm so glad to see vandals haven't destroyed this beautiful piece of history.
I wasn't aware of this location. I appreciate you taking the time to take the video. I am going to share it with a geophysicist who is a petroglyph enthusiast, hopefully he can provide some insight.
I so enjoyed this video! Warmest and most abundant thanks for sharing this. We're so fortunate to have these reminders of our ancestors and their lives.
Thank you
Looks like a whole bunch of natives watched a meteorite hit
The glyphs you pointed out in the turkey tracks looked like tad poles and the other looked like a comet.
This is beautiful. I would love to try to visit this site. I am in Sequatchie County Tennessee.. I will try to find this State Park area you are talking about in this video. Great job and explanations...thanks
Great job taking us with. Thank you so much for hiking out there. Job well done on the video!
Thank you
Thank you! Looks like a beautiful place. The glyphs and markings made me imagine looking out of the cave at night, thru the bare winter branches with the starts peaking thru...
What a great video! You give historical background; you show the site; you explain, and you show scale. Thanks so much.
Thank you
That's very interesting. I was born in Tennessee. But raised in California. I know very little about Tennessee. Glad to see something of it. Nice! ❤️
Thank you for doing such a great job showing your area.
Thank you
This takes my breath away it’s incredible beautiful I’m blessed that you share this thank you so much I’m learning about my history of native Indians blood line
Thank you and you are welcome. I feel so blessed to live where I do.
TN resident. Thank you for this video. I just found it. I am fascinated!
Sweet, thank you 😊
The beautiful Franklin.. Thanks fot showing us this shelter! It'd be amazing to see the potery that was found. 🙏
Fantastic video. I’m from Ontario Canada. I have travelled through Tennessee, and absolutely love that states the area, Urian kind of reminds me of Mammoth Cave, which I have travelled to in Kentucky. Awesome to see this precious sight!!!
cool video !!!!!
Thank you very much
Thank you! Thank you for sharing this amazing site!
Great video!! Thank you for sharing with us!!
Awesome!!!! I love Tennessee
Me too!
SWEET. I collect Native American artifacts. They were all legally found, Surface Finds. I collect them to preserve history. Thank you so much for sharing this.
I find a few arrowheads. Just walking along lake & stream shores.
My great uncle found a honey pit in a field after it was plowed up right on a Bluff above a stream that turned into a river in flood season. Boxes of artifacts.
I'm not sure which tribe these artifacts were from.
Yeah try not to go there and steal or vandalize anything.
Very very cool! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you
Great video. As a descendant of the Cherokee of Georgia, I like to think that one of my distant relatives may have visited that site, and how I would like to myself.
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I imagined later natives using these caves then realised I was looking from a modern white perspective. Native Americans were modern people living in villages. They didn't need to live like cavemen. I guess they might well have sheltered from inclement weather here though. Greetings from Australia.
Thank you!
What a wonderful video. Thanks for taking us along! The shelter is so interesting.
Thank you
What an awesome find! My dream job would be to work as a Park ranger and see awesome stuff like this all the time! How informative thanks for sharing!
Thank you
Make your dream come true. I think I would have definitely enjoyed that profession. It would be a great job.
Great video. After 64 years of roaming Tennessee Cumberlands I am no longer able to hike rough terrain having broken both femurs.
Thanks for letting me see this treasure through your lens. And for being such a knowledgeable virtual guide.
Enjoy the woods while you can my friends.
Thank you. However, I am very sorry to hear about your femurs and no longer being able to hike. I love the outdoors here in Tennessee as there is so much to do and see. And you are right, enjoy it while we can. Thank you for watching.
Thank you for the video
Thx you for sharing your story
Thank you!
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I just learned about these petroglyphs reading In Search of First Contact. Thanks for expanding more upon them visually!
That is awesome I enjoyed the video
All the carbon dating proves is that the place was last used 1000 years ago. It's probably older than that.
Yes it probably was used before that
Thank you for this walk & talk on History, Love from the Netherlands
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Great interpretation of the sites history. I grew up in Tennessee and enjoyed the scenery. Thank You!
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Awesome Video Mamn...I Love Stuff like this...Thank You.
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I just have to see these petroglyphs! fun video. thank you
i absolutely love this sort of stuff!!
Fascinating! You are quite knowledgeable! Thank you!
My pleasure! And thank you.
this is awesome! I had the privilege of driving through TN and AR a few years ago and visiting some of the well-known sites like Petit Jean, Parkin, and Pinson mounds. Would love to come back and see some more of the off-the-beaten-path stuff. I live in MD now but have lived/worked/explored the southwest extensively. I really fell in love with AR and TN when I passed through.
We visited Petit Jean a few years back too!
awwsome adventure... thank you
That's really cool! Thanks for showing us around
Thank you
They are carved so deep! I’ve seen many but none so deeply carved. Thanks for taking us along to this special place! 😍
You are welcome!
Kind Thanks for sharing your petroglyphs at that Beautiful place! I live in south east Pennsylvania about 12 miles east of the Susquehanna River where many petroglyphs are carved on the rocks in the middle of the river, which is about a mile wide at this point. It is believed to be the largest concentration of glyphs known on the north east coast. Thanks Again and Many Blessings! DaveyJO in Pennsylvania
Enjoyed the video. Thanks 👍
Thank you
Amazing, thank you!
Did you notice the rock above the petroglyphs? It's a perfect horizontal line.. just found that interesting. Great video. Very relaxing. Thank you 🤗
That was the one thing that stood out for me. So happy to know someone else noticed that fact.
Thank you for the informative video.
thanks good coverage.
Thanks for watching
Thank you for sharing!! Love Native history
Thank you
Nice, ❤️ from West Virginia
My favorite time of year to hike as well as the winter time, of course but I love the sound of the leaves crunching underneath your feet
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Fascinating video - thank you! Also, I have to say you have a wonderful speaking voice - very clear and pleasant with a nice Southern accent. That and the interesting subject make this an outstanding video.
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Very cool!
Thanks.Great content!👍
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As someone who grew up in the mid west for 31 years I appreciate you posting this. The nostalgia of the land really brought a lot of peace to my heart during my struggles with my health. I'm also eastern native! So thank you so much for all of your time and efforts putting together such a beautiful video to share with us. Blessings and I hope you have a wonderful Christmas and New Years. ❤
Thank you and you as well
Really made me do some research of what’s south of Nashville. Been to Chattanooga and didn’t think of what else could be down there. Thanks a lot and really great video. Keep exploring!
Thank you. Tennessee has a lot to offer.
14:41 Thank you. I love learning about the Native Americans. I’ve always been intrigued with them. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
You are welcome and thank you.
This video is so interesting! The carving with the circle at the bottom with "tails" trailing upward, reminds me of a comet. I live in the North Georgia mountains and have often wondered if the rocky areas here have caves that were used. As a child, I enjoyed gathering flint arrowheads after the garden was plowed.
Great Video.
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Thank you ,my heritage,
my mom was Cherokee.
Thanks! I went in a cave on the Giles and Maury county line probably 40 years ago in Tennessee. It was off Highway 245. We went deep and got nervous about finding our way back. It was interesting.
Community Southport. Good video!
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Beautiful beautiful beautiful
Thank you!
Thanks for sharing this this. I've never seen petroglyphs like these. They have a strange symmetry & unearthly beauty.
Thank you. It's a very special place for sure.
I love these people I’m Irish ☘️ 👍🙏🙏🙏
Your awesome!
That’s freaking awsome!!!!
Great scenic sight!
Many thanks!
Thank you so much for taking me along on your wonderful hike. It is always so exciting to discover and learn about Native Americans. And how beautiful is rock and stone?!
Thank you
Some truly interesting news coming out of of America ... makes a nice change
First time to your channel. Appreciate your work and enjoyed you showing and teaching us about this exciting shelter. VERY cool. You have me hooked and a new subscriber too. Keep up what you do as you are making a difference in the world !
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Great video thanks
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HellIo from northern California Mount Shasta area. Thank you for sharing Tennessee s only Excavated site Of petroglyphs. I They are wonderful I definitelywill be looking for more Of your videos!
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Fascinating!
Hey🙋🏻♀️ from the other side in WNC at the Foothills. I re-damaged my broken toe today & it’s throbbin’ like a “Son-of-UH-Gun” with “pretty colors” adorning it!😖 So I came across your video with ALL THE FALL COLORS & COOLNESS (UNlike NOW…Summer 🥵), leaves 🍂 CRUNCHING under foot. And then… THEN I HEAR THOSE “LIL DUSK-TIME CRITTERS” DOING THEIR MAGICAL THANG!!! That MAGICAL song that LULLS many of us ASLEEP & LOWERS our blood pressure into the “CALM ZONE”!! I wait to that FALL-TIME be able to OPEN the windows again at night & fall asleep to that “magical music & crisp Fall night air”🤫 😴
Aw…… Thanks for the video, enjoyed it, now I’ll definitely check out some more! ✌🏻
Thank you and I am happy you enjoyed it. Hope you have a speedy recovery so you can get back at it again soon!
@@tag_caver Thank you
Back in the early 90s used to spend a week paddling the creeks on the Cumberland Plateau. We paddled upper Clear Creek in high water and came across a huge rock house right on the river. I stopped and got out and the nooks and crevasses in there were full of shards and chips. Am sure it gets flooded all the time
Looks like a bolide at eleven twenty, my favorite subject. From The Deep Ocean Above
New sub from TN. I am starting to find interest in the Native American history in TN. Thank you for this video!
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Awesome video! I live in east Tennessee and didn't know about it. We'll be visiting now bc of your leg work. Literally 😂
Beautiful. I subscribed.
Thank you
Well done and inspiring.
I agree with you, this site was most likely use for ceremony and medicine.
It has probably changed over centuries with new generations and visitors--but definitely a great site for spiritual reflection---near a water source, and inspiring location visually. Just imagine visiting the site at night when the trees are bare---I wonder what the skies, stars look like at night at that site. That might provide more insight into any ancient meaning of the site.
Those worn niches/holes in the cave wall may have held herbs, poltices, medicine. No part of the animal (be it bear, deer, wolf, eagle, turkey) went unused. All had a purpose.
I would imagine the flora was a lot different 1000 years ago as far as what trees were growing close by etc, maybe the sky was a lot more visible? Thank you for bringing this beautiful place into our lives.
The cupules are interesting (vertical). We have a site by us in AZ that has them in deferent sizes under a over hang in a creek bed and some horizonal too. I go with ceremony -
Nice I find Patrick lives here in Tucson all the time I love finding them or just checking out the ones everyone knows about
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Nevermind! You answered my question in your next vid that I watched!
Reminds me of being a child and young adult. As kids, me and my brother use to explore the areas known as “ cole city holler” or “ cole city” ( which was burned out years ago. As adults my mom, dad amd I would ginseng hunt there. I got pictures of the last “ coke oven” that hadn’t fallen in. It was awesome! The sounds from being in nature, make me want to go back to where my life was simple, relaxing and care-free. Good times, thank you! ( We are close to Marion County, where GA/AL/TN all border, there are some awesome caves, and scenery here! Lost history also!
Oh yes, I moved here for caving! My husband and I have been cavers for almost 20 years and we also live here in Marion County. Most of my videos I post are actually about caving and we even own a cave too! Thank you for watching.
First video, liked and subscribed
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I feel like I noticed a couple of glyphs and some fossils that you just walked by. I'll bet that entire area is filled with wonderful evidence of the past.
Most definitely. I am going to upload a new video tomorrow showing some more in the area.
I'd say that one ball with the three lines off the back of it with the bigger ball behind the lines could be the moon or sun and comet or asteroid they witnessed or was told about it, or it was a vision of future?kinda looks like the wall is made to look like darkness to me?
I have heard that it is also suspected that they may have had ceremonies here during celestial events as well so that would make sense too. In that corner, there was evidence of fires so the darkenss could be soot from fires and some Aholes recently built another fire in there so that could contribue to it as wel.
Kosmographia on UA-cam by Randall Carlson describes an event in the 1800’s of multiple fires to the west of and around the northern portion of the Great Lakes that looked like a broom sweeping everything away. The Great Conflagrations is what episode’s to search for. Interesting stuff that I immediately thought of when I saw the carving y’all are talking about. I also thought of an astrological conjunction, or winter solstice as possible ritual ceremonies. Thanks for the interesting share!
@@iammymusictoo8525 Oh yes, I agree. The more I think about those round holes, I wonder if it were the full moon they were carving.
I SPENT ALMOST MY WHOLE LIFE DOING THIS VERY THING
Amazing…
Cool !
An old friend of mine took me somewhere near rockcastle co ky to see some. Can’t for the life of me remember where!
There's a couple of caves really close to my house in Rheatown Tennessee . It's part of Chuckey , Tennessee
Here in Tennessee, there are over 11,500 caves. More than any other state.
Thank you for sharing this video. I would suggest that this area has been being used by indigenous peoples for over three thousand years.
Oh most definitely!
Outstanding! Just subbed.
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Hi there, the cave opening where the deer prints and the pit are, if you went there on the solstice and equinox you would find the dots and line follows a shadow line that matches the sun angle on those days. They did this so they knew how many months until the ceremony. It's a very clever system, to use the sun and shadows as a calender. There may be some zodiac patterns there also. Take care and merry Christmas to you and yours.