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Unusual Georgia Petroglyph

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Margaret Perryman Smith*
Affiliation:
717 Woodward Way, NW, Atlanta, Georgia

Extract

This petroglyph (Fig. 138) was found about ninety years ago in Douglas County, Ga., on a hill on the north banks of Sweetwater Creek, not far from where this creek empties into the Chattahoochee River.

The petroglyph is quite different from any of the other known Georgia petroglyphs. The peculiar shape of the stone and the distinctive type of its markings make it one of the most interesting and rare examples of stone carvings in Georgia. The apparently purposely cut deep notch in the bottom of the stone is most puzzling and poses the problem of whether the stone might have been made to be placed upon a cross beam or a ridge pole.

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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1953

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