High Elevation Petroglyphs along the South Carolina/North Carolina State Line

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Technique and Interpretation in the Archaeology of Rock Art" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Long Ridge Road is the most complicated of 20 high elevation sites with similar-looking circular and meandering petroglyphs along the South Carolina/North Carolina state line. With the aid of drone photography a minimum number of 1,043 petroglyph motifs were recorded. Based on motif style and stratigraphy the site most likely dates to the Middle to Late Woodland periods. Like other petroglyph sites in the region it is located beside an old trail that connects the valley bottoms with prominent mountain tops. Also, petroglyphs are concentrated on the steepest portion of the exposed bedrock pavement.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Technique and Interpretation in the Archaeology of Rock Art   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 22783