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1000 Year Old Pictographs Discovered on Lookout Mountain in Georgia

Come along with me as I hike out to a large jumble of sandstone boulders known as a rock town here on Lookout Mountain in Georgia that contain 1,000-year-old Native American pictographs. This area and shelter were once used by the late woodland and early Mississippian Native Americans and is located within a natural feature called a rock town. This rock town feature was formed when the Pennsylvanian sandstone cap rock was exposed by erosion and slid over underlying shale deposits pushed by gravity, fracturing and separating down slope as it moved. The result is a massive jumble of boulders with some of them being lager than houses. Within the boulders there are narrow crevices and passages that wind in between the rock walls as well as some dark zones that can be classified as caves. Located at this site are numerous pictographs including some that are scorpions, a snake, a face and even a sword. On the scorpions, the front appendages are emphasized, and the bodies are segmented. There are also some rock platforms or tables that are also believed to have been of prehistoric manufacturing. We use an app on our smart phones called DStretch which helps enhance photos of rock art. This app allows you to take a photo in the field and bring out faint pictographs that are invisible to the naked eye.



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1000 Year Old Native American Pictographs Discovered on top of Lookout Mountain in Georgia




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