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Cramped chamber hides some of North America’s biggest cave art

Technique reveals engravings more than 2 metres tall in an underground cavern in Alabama.
Anthropomorph in regalia, with a rayed circle in the midsection (0.93m tall) from 19th Unnamed Cave, Alabama

Scans of an Alabama cave wall revealed an engraved human figure (left; rendered as a drawing, centre and right) nearly one metre tall. Credit: Photo by S. Alvarez; illustration by J. Simek

Some of the largest-known Native American cave art has been revealed with the help of 3D imaging, which uncovered figures spanning more than 2 metres in an Alabama cavern1.

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Nature 605, 197 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01217-w

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  1. Simek, J. F., Alvarez, S. & Cressler, A. Antiquity https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2022.24 (2022).

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