Discovering Ancient ROCK ART in Alabama's Unnamed Cave

[@stacyhazelwood4033]

Great video!! Thank you for sharing.

[@tag_caver]

Thank you

[@tuto108]

This was fascinating!!! Thank you so much!

[@tag_caver]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you.

[@seanjones7170]

You are such a great conservationist. I’m really enjoying all of your videos.Keep up the much appreciated work!

[@tag_caver]

Thank you we work hard to be responsible!

[@karlo8093]

Very fascinating! Thanks for such an amazing video.

[@tag_caver]

Thank you

[@jackfabulous758]

Totally love your channel! Thank you so much!!!!

[@tag_caver]

Thank you

[@paulplatt5074]

SO Cool. I have heard of this cave. I hope it's gated. Thank you for sharing this. I have projectile points from this time period. What a great discovery and amazing art. I hope this cave stays preserved for others to enjoy. I want to THANK YOU and Jason for the great gift that you sent me. Sorry so late in responding. It was Amazing and I tried it on many things, all were good however it wasn't that good on POP TARTS or bananas. HA! LOVE YOU FOLKS! I have a decent Native American collection of tools and projectile points from different periods and love the history of native Americans. Your caving posts are TOP NOTCH! Please keep it going.

[@tag_caver]

Lol pop tarts!!

[@josephkerley363]

Thanks for sharing. I appreciate your efforts to preserve the history of the cave. That however is a cave I could do. With my store bought knees I don't handle crawling all that well anymore. I can walk though. That is a big cave. Have you ever gone as far as you could on in? Not a lot of caving up here in AK.

[@tag_caver]

Oh yes, we've explored the entire cave before. It actually has several entrances as well.

[@moneypenny7613]

That is the coolest cave ever!!!

[@tfred6403]

Thanks for keeping this a secret so they can be preserved.

[@undergroundearth]

Awesome Video very cool its such a big display of Mud Glyphs!

[@darrenheffner4329]

Awesome Video Thank You For Sharing And Respecting The Anonymity Of Our Ancestors ✌️&❤️

[@Doxymeister]

I've seen those mud glyphs before on other cavers' videos, so I'm kind of wondering if they were the ones that put the fresh footprints in the cave mud. No way to know, of course. Anyway, had to laugh--when you said "bare human footprints" for some silly reason I saw in my mind a "bear-human footprint", LOL. Ah, the perils of the English language! Anyway, those mud glyphs are fascinating, and I agree with him that it looks like some object was used to make them, since they're very uniform not just in size but also in distance apart and depth. It's fun to theorize, of course. Love the bats and salamanders!

[@jamespmullin21753]

Wow, that is so much better than airplanes, computers, modern homes, space satellites etc

[@tag_caver]

Simple life....

[@jamespmullin21753]

@@tag_caver Starvation for people who do not have the skill sets of a cave man.

[@xgaming4147]

Thanks to your hard work. I hope the findings will be put to good use :D

[@tag_caver]

I didn't do the original studies, others have.

[@johnnyallen5736]

Thanks so much.That was great.That last glyph in the video was awesome. Those lines looked like they were in groups of three. Similar to mud glyphs in a cave near where I live.The glyphs I refer to are from 1200-1400AD(Mississipian time period).Amazing those folks relying on bundles of cane to go that far back in the dark zone!!!! Thanks again for the great video---keep up the great work.

[@tag_caver]

Thank you

[@ChristaFree]

Y'all should bring 3D laser technology in to get a complete picture of the glyphs. They may tell a story and are worthy of everyone getting to see, on a paper or computer image. I think it's great.

[@tag_caver]

Yes others have done photogrammetry. It's quite amazing to see it all as one huge panel. Their work made national news earlier this year but it's not my work to share in my video.

[@canoesino9290]

Back in the late 70s was shown the rock art at Paint Rock on the French Broad river. It was very faint back then. Unfortunately it has been spray painted over with graffiti

[@tag_caver]

😔

[@garyparker7762]

Have you been to limrock cave in limrock Alabama

[@tag_caver]

Yes, we have been there but it has been a long time.

[@lisamason8965]

I wonder if those are diagrams of the villages they had in the area ?

[@darz3829]

Wow. Squiggly lines scratched into stone around the same time that The Renaissance in Europe was producing arguably the greatest output of human endeavors in science, literature, art and ideas.

[@johnnyallen5736]

I believe the renaissance in Europe was around the 15th century AD--not positive though.Didn't she say the cave site dated to 500AD?Also, I'm certain first americans relied on stone tool technologies to make a living.Hardly comparing apples-to apples!!

[@darz3829]

@@johnnyallen5736 The title says "1500 year old Native American Mud Glyphs" Dating the cave site to 500AD is not necessarily dating the Glyphs. So the glyphs and Renaissance seem to be close. As for Indians using stone tools, the Chinese were using steel tools in the 3rd century AD, long before these cave glyphs. Bottom line - Indians were not as advanced as the rest of the world.

[@johnnyallen5736]

I believe she said the stoke marks had been radiocarbon dated to around 500Ad. Also,there was a small amount of ceramic sherds that were from the middle woodland period which date to around 500 ad. So there is pretty strong evidence the glyphs maybe from that time period.Also, I agree with you that people in Europe were more" advanced" during the renaissance than the folks creating the mud glyphs in the cave.

[@darz3829]

@@johnnyallen5736 Of course if we really wanted to get serious we could bring up the Egyptians who were carving works of art millennia before the Indians were crawling in caves vandalizing the walls.

[@tag_caver]

I'm not sure what your point is here? Your comments come across very condensending. These were indigenous people here, not there. It doesn't matter what was happening in another region, as this video is about what was happening here.