Recent road construction along the site resulted in the lost of several petroglyphs on the horizontal surface. Doug Porter shines a light on a surviving petroglyph on a vertical surface.
Recent road construction along the site resulted in the lost of several
petroglyphs on the horizontal surface. Doug Porter shines a light on a surviving petroglyph
on a vertical surface.
Photograph of the petroglyphs taken in the 1987 and provided by Sarah Breece.
Photograph from 1987.
Photograph from 1987.
Photograph from 1987.
The same petroglyph as it appears in 2012 on the vertical rock surface.
The petroglyph appear to be a human head with a series of feathers attached to his hair. Scale is 20 cm.
Dr. Neal Lopinot (director of Center for Archaeological Research at Missouri State University) watches as
professional and amateur archaeologists
search for more petroglyphs at the site.
The Mount Zion site is discussed by Carol Diaz-Granados (1993:488) and Diaz-Granados and Duncan (2000).
Diaz-Granados, Carol
1993 The Petroglyphs and Pictographs of Missouri: A Distributional, Stylistic, Contextual, Functional and Temporal Analysis of the State's Rock Graphics. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, Washington University , St. Louis, Missouri.
Diaz-Granados, Carol and James R. Duncan
2000 The Petroglyphs and Pictographs of Missouri. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
Many thanks to Sarah Breece for providing digital scans of photographs taken in 1987 of the site!
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