Leslie C. "Skip" Stewart-Abernathy, station archaeologist for the Arkansas Archeological Survey's Winthrop Rockefeller Institute Research Station, pointing out the pictographs and petroglyphs at the shallow shelter called Indian Cave.
Pictographs at Indian Cave are discussed in detail by Sabo and Sabo (2005). The site is situated on Arkansas State Park property (Petit Jean State Park).
Leslie C. "Skip" Stewart-Abernathy, station archaeologist for the Arkansas Archeological Survey's Winthrop Rockefeller Institute Research Station, pointing out the pictographs and petroglyphs at the shallow shelter called Indian Cave.
Sabo and Sabo (2005:Figure 57) identify the pictograph to the right as a fiddlehead fern (possibly Matteuccia struthiopteris). Sabo and Sabo (2005:Figure 64) identify the pictograph to the left as a complex abstract design. Fritz and Ray (1982:Figure 10-12a) report that the fern pictograph measures 25 cm in height and 15 cm in width.
Pictograph of animal. Sabo and Sabo (2005:Figure 34) identify this as a solid, naturalistic zoomorph design. Fritz and Ray (1982:Figure 10-13) published a photograph of this animal and commented on it long ears. Its long tail and slender body - suggest to me that it might represent a panther/cougar (Puma concolor).
Petroglyph spiral with vertical line through the center.
Pictograph of interlocking abstract patterns.
DStretch image using the YYE enhancement of the pictograph of interlocking abstract patterns at Indian Cave (3CN17). The DStretch plugin to the ImageJ program was written by Jon Harman for rock art researchers who wish to enhance images of pictographs.
Faint pictograph on the wall of Indian Cave (3CN17).
DStretch image using the YRE enhancement of the pictograph on the wall of Indian Cave (3CN17). Sabo and Sabo (2005:Figure 63) identify this as a complex geometric motif called diamond field.
Faint pictograph of a plant on the wall of Indian Cave (3CN17).
DStretch image using the IRE enhancement of the pictograph on the wall of Indian Cave (3CN17). Sabo and Sabo (2005:Figure 20) suggest that this might the cultivated plant called Lamb's Quarters (Chenopodium album).
Faint pictograph on the wall of Indian Cave (3CN17).
DStretch image using the YRE enhancement on the wall of Indian Cave (3CN17).
Professors Michael and Neathery Fuller at Petit Jean State Park, Arkansas.
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