1000 Year Old Pictographs Discovered on Lookout Mountain in Georgia

[@kensmith8832]

That was a cool adventure with a kid! Getting kids into the adventures early is key to keeping them interested when they are older!

[@tag_caver]

For sure! Kiera gets to go to some cool places.

[@stilllookingup9999]

1:21 Thats a trail marker. There are lots of them around here in Marion Co. TN. I love that they have survived so long and hope they live a long life

[@Siouxsi-Sioux]

Wasn't sure if you knew but, the tree you commented on around 1:7-18 or so with the bent out branch, trees with odd branches like that were bent by native Americans many many years ago, when the tree was small enough for a man to bend the branches. It was bent in that fashion to point to something. Water or food or danger. I guess you had to know which it meant or go that direction and find out. Certain shapes of knots could have been an indicator as to what the branch meant. It's up very high so it was long ago and that tree must be very old. So in the future when you see a bent tree it means something is or was in a certain direction you should go to or run from! I've seen bent branches in trees three times as high as that.

[@tag_caver]

Thank you

[@Wootangtw]

Yeah I’ve seen a lot of those bent over trees some that’s huge probably several hundred years old…

[@bestlifeever4548]

I'm in GA on Creek Indian area and have a bent curved tree on my farm. My family has Cherokee, and my husband has Creek Indian ancestors.

[@tnmantn8938]

I don’t think that tree is a 100 years old if that…way past the time Native Americans were roaming freely on Lookout Mtn..imo

[@Wootangtw]

@@tnmantn8938 I know it’s hard to tell sometimes about a tree’s age… I know there is a double oak tree at my old home place in rising fawn Georgia that is the biggest tree I’ve seen and it looks exactly now like it did when I was 3 years old and I’m 61 now… so that tree I’m talking about has to be 300 or more… it’s just hard to tell sometimes… this is definitely a cool video…

[@evdallas123]

The rock formations around rock city and lookout MTN are amazing I love it there

[@vondahartsock-oneil3343]

Well I was going to say that tree you pointed out as neat. Is a Native American directional marker. BUT I went thru comments after the fact and saw it was mentioned a few times lol. SO, I quickly deleted my history lesson lol. Honestly, I hate that we were removed to this wasteland, when we had THAT. All my life, I yearned for the outdoors, forests and mountains. When I got older and told I was a tribal citizen, ancestors on the Tribal rolls. I realized why. Everytime I visit forests and mountains. I feel so at peace and at home. Thanks for showing, what I'll never get to see. At least I'm guessing I won't. I'm on the Cherokee Reservation. It's open to anyone tho. It's just a normal place. We have Amish here as well. They hid us during the persecution, but still eagerly took our land for free. History is history. I'm not complaining, pls don't take it that way. It's just that NON TRIBAL People wonder why we still have this emotion after all these yrs. It's b/c it's ingrained into us for one, but also. Each one of us, has to relive the past, read all the old documents etc...when we turn 18, to get our CDIB card. People also think we get money and we don't. Some tribes do, but it's always the very small ones who have casino's who share the profit. Large tribes like Cherokee do not do that. The profit from their casinos goes back into the communities for road improvements, schools, etc...I got $500 or so when I turned 18. It was held in trust all this time. Hundreds of yrs. So you can tell, the land was obtained for pennies. We only sold it, to prevent further bloodshed, loss of our people and ways etc...If we didn't sell. We would have been slaughtered.

[@tag_caver]

Thank you for sharing your story. We are truly lucky here to have everything we do that we can explore outdoors. I find a lot of my spirituality outdoors in nature.

[@Doxymeister]

Really appreciate especially, the trip during lovely foliage season! We occasionally have nice fall colors, but we're borderline arid conditions so often we don't get enough moisture, our leaves tend to just turn brown and fall off due to dry conditions. So I love seeing this, getting to experience your fall colors during trips. Thank you for taking us along!

[@tag_caver]

Thank you. It's been questionable how good the colors would be this year since we were in a severe drought! Thank you for watching and commenting.

[@Wootangtw]

There’s some rock towns kinda like that on Fox mountain in rising fawn.. it’s the bluff that over looks fox mountain trout farm… I’ve camped under them several times back in the 70’s and 80’s back when you could actually go up there… Awesome video thanks a bunch…

[@tag_caver]

From looking at Google maps, there is a house near that area now. Do you remember any native stuff being there?

[@Wootangtw]

@ yeah there is a house there now… no I can’t remember anything being drawn or written on any of the rocks but there could have been…

[@laurachapin204]

I rather assume you have been to the Crockford-Pigeon Mtn area? I know it has caves which I stay away from. I really enjoy the large Rocktown there. The shapes, colors, features of the rock is fascinating.

[@tag_caver]

Oh yes, been to Pigeon mtn many times!

[@bestlifeever4548]

I have a bent tree here on my farm in GA, which was creek Indian territory. We have been to many places like this in TN NC GA where we are from amd family all lives. (FL as well)

[@tag_caver]

Oh nice.

[@jennyb.9984]

Very cool! Thank ypu for sharing! The dstrech program is fantastic

[@tag_caver]

Thank you. It definitely makes it much easier to see what our eyes cannot.

[@20greeneyes20]

What a very interesting cool place to explore. I wish it wasn't so far from me but it is.... Thanks for sharing!

[@tag_caver]

Thanks for watching 🥰

[@Timwalker-hv6kr]

That cross was extended on the bottom like a crucifix I've seen crosses in native pictographs before but all sides were basically even.

[@vondahartsock-oneil3343]

OH, I forgot something so I returned. At first I was thinking these Pictographs were going to be much much older. Ice Age old. The sword suggests otherwise. I was surprised to see a sword. Just how cool is that!!? THANK YOU, again.

[@tag_caver]

I don't there is much record of people found here from the ice age. There are some pre contact bones that have been found in caves. We do on occasion find fossils from ice age animals in caves as well. I've got a few videos showing those.

[@jimmywilson1388]

That’s awesome, I live in Flintstone Ga… I’d love to see some stuff like that. I have Cherokee and Creek Indian in my family…

[@RobertAllen-e4i]

A lot of caves and rock house dwellings were blown up with dynamite and cannon when the indians were rounded up for trail of tears.Did it in front of them so they knew they didn't have a home to return too.Jackson was a monster.

[@tag_caver]

😞

[@kickapootrackers7255]

Pretty country around there, thanks for sharing the hike n formations.

[@tag_caver]

Thank you!

[@tnmantn8938]

Awesome…thanks for sharing…a neat place in that jointed, eroded sandstone…if there were water nearby it would have been a major use rock shelter for native Americans…I don’t think the table is of Native American origin…but that’s me….

[@ronwarren4196]

Neat video.

[@tag_caver]

Thank you

[@TennesseeCastIronCooker]

Thanks for sharing!

[@kristimcgowandarkoscellard3126]

Take another look at those “rock boulders” 🤔 Those “bacteria mats” are in fact ring growth in wood 😱 what you are looking at is a giant piece of petrified wood 😱 I know it sounds crazy but just do the comparison yourself. What you find when you do is that these formations are absolutely identical to decaying wood in every way except size and of course now materials as the gigantic ones are now turned to stone. Most people are unaware of what wood growth looks like or the crazy shapes it takes as it decays. It is mind blowing but these formations are identical to wood 😱🤷🏼‍♀️🤔

[@tag_caver]

Interesting theory. Thank you for your perspective.

[@gud2go50]

Neat place! In Arkansas, I found out by accident while taking pictures of Pictographs they were much easier to see. I’ve never heard of Dstrech before though. Thanks for sharing your visit to the rock city. I can see why people would take refuge in there. I always laugh when people get so angry about graffiti, because mankind has been doing it since the beginning of time!😂

[@tag_caver]

Check it out, it's not a free app but worth it.

[@schaeferstudios]

At 11:46 there seems to be engravings. Especially on the lower left where I see what looks like a circle and crosshairs. Maybe you could do the “D” thing on it? Thanks

[@tag_caver]

Thank you. I'll take a look!

[@sunshinevitdcam7656]

Burial sites from when the superheated event happened and melted everything, and all the trees outside of the same size which tells you when the flash heated event happened which was recently

[@pareidoliarocks]

Thanks for sharing! I expect the sword turned a few heads.

[@ChrisfromGeorgia]

Very cool! Thank you for sharing. New subscriber here😎👍🏻

[@tag_caver]

Thank you for subscribing.

[@amybritt1363]

How cool! I didn't know we had anything like this in the area ! I have saw some markings before on rock on Lookout Mountain that I thought were ancient runes, and I've been meaning to go back and look at them again. Have you found any points or pottery? Thanks again for the video!

[@tag_caver]

None were found at this site while we were there, but honestly we didn't look for them either. I have found them in other places around Tennessee.

[@DeAThWisH112]

Subbed. I cave , hunt petroglyphs, hunt pictographs and gems. I saw some pictographs recently in sc. I also found a few undocumented petroglyphs.

[@tag_caver]

On nice!

[@jcee2259]

Having had a Federal Army up there they had the time and reasons to raise more fuss.

[@mikelowery3361]

It would be pretty remarkable to find trail marker trees that were done by the Cherokee since the tree would have to be 150+ years old and that tree looked about 50 or so but there is an explanation. Marker trees were used by the Irish settlers that settled the Appalachian mountains and that practice was widely used by woodsman, hunters and moonshiners up until about the second World War. After the war the practice was mainly used by hunters. We used to make them in the 1960's a practice my grandfather taught me. My heritage is Irish -Cherokee, So the ones we see today are probably from the later years. The red pictographs were most likely Cherokee in origin depicting dangers in and around the rocky area. The darker ones were most likely done by hunters using the area from late 1800's to about 1970's. Please be careful this time of year exploring around large rock croppings there are a lot of Timber Rattlesnakes in that area and they have two types of venom and are the most dangerous vipers in the Southeast. Great video, glad you take the young ones and educated them on our native heritage.

[@tag_caver]

Thank you!

[@cavezip]

❤❤❤

[@Fossilsunleashed]

kinds looks like a giant spurlock 2:06

[@heatherbennett6036]

Those x's can be to ward off evil.

[@Anakin_X]

Lots of melted and compressed bricks, mortar, and flat masonry walls, some in pieces on the ground is what I see. Great video though.

[@tag_caver]

Thank you.

[@Doxymeister]

❣💯👍

[@AyewhiteGurllll]

Yupppppppp

[@Escapecheesebot]

6 month Crayola too me🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 IDK 😐

[@tag_caver]

😂

[@charleswieand4445]

Teepees?

[@maryannkellakis4596]

Indian trail tree

[@timothycoulter2848]

Sorry that’s Crayola doodle

[@tag_caver]

😂😂😂

[@2025-ncswic]

Crime scene