Picture Cave, color image

Part of the Cosmology in the New World project

Creator(s): Timothy Pauketat

Year: 2010

Summary

This is an image of Picture Cave, in eastern Missouri. AMS dates AD 1025. Interpreted by Carol Diaz-Granados as the Morning Star. (2004, Marking Stone, Land, Body, and Spirit, in Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand, Art Institute of Chicago). Image courtesy of Tim Pauketat.

Cite this Record

Picture Cave, color image. Timothy Pauketat. 2010 ( tDAR id: 5711) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8JW8C76


Keywords

Culture
Mississippian • Woodland

Site Name
Picture Cave

Investigation Types
Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis

General
bilobed • Long-nosed god earring • Morning Star • Shell • Tlaloc

Geographic Keywords
Midwest • Missouri • Picture Cave

Temporal Keywords
Mississippian • Woodland

Temporal Coverage

Radiocarbon Date: 925 to 925

Calendar Date: 1025 to 1025

Spatial Coverage

min long: -92.791; min lat: 38.445 ; max long: -90.264; max lat: 40.28 ;

File Information

  Name Size Creation Date Date Uploaded Access
morning-star-picture-cave.jpg 104.24kb Dec 9, 2010 3:07:10 PM Public