{"id":138977,"date":"2022-05-05T21:03:02","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T02:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/largest-native-american-cave-art-revealed-by-3d-scans"},"modified":"2022-05-05T21:03:02","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T02:03:02","slug":"largest-native-american-cave-art-revealed-by-3d-scans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/largest-native-american-cave-art-revealed-by-3d-scans","title":{"rendered":"Largest Native American cave art revealed by 3D scans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cQTAOqAnL-s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Deep in a damp cave in northern Alabama, archaeologists have made a giant discovery. On a subterranean ceiling just half a meter high, researchers have uncovered the largest cave art discovered in North America: intricate etchings of humanlike figures and a serpent, carved by Native Americans more than 1,000 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s exemplary and important work,\u201d says Carla Klehm, an archaeologist at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville (UAF).<\/p>\n<p>Although the U.S. Southwest is famous for petroglyphs carved into canyons and cliff faces, much of the southeast\u2019s rock art is hidden underground in caves. \u201cForty years ago, no one would have thought the southeast had much cave art,\u201d says Thomas Pluckhahn, an archaeologist at the University of South Florida who wasn\u2019t involved with the paper. But over the past few decades, archaeologists including the University of Tennessee, Knoxville\u2019s Jan Simek have shown that\u2019s not the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deep in a damp cave in northern Alabama, archaeologists have made a giant discovery. On a subterranean ceiling just half a meter high, researchers have uncovered the largest cave art discovered in North America: intricate etchings of humanlike figures and a serpent, carved by Native Americans more than 1,000 years ago. \u201cIt\u2019s exemplary and important [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}