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Submitted by bat400 on Tuesday, 31 December 2013  Page Views: 6777

Rock ArtSite Name: South Carolina Rock Art Center Alternative Name: Hagood Mill Historic Site and Folklife Center, Hagood Mill Rock
Country: United States Region: The South Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Greenville  Nearest Village: Pickens
Latitude: 34.926700N  Longitude: 82.721W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Judaculla Rock
Judaculla Rock submitted by TimPrevett : Closer shots of the rock and glyphs. Useful to compare with the diagram to work it out (http://www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=a312&file=index&do=showpic&pid=51746) (Vote or comment on this photo)
Rock Art in Pickens County, South Carolina.
Over two dozen petroglyphs, including human "stick figures" and other symbols, on a 30-foot long flat topped boulder, and are similar to those found on the well known Judaculla Rock (shown here.) Based on the location and stylistic factors, the figures are thought to be 1000 to 2000 years old. The carvings are extremely faint and not readily visible in full light. They were rediscovered in 2003 by a volunteer working for the South Carolina Rock Art Survey.

The rock art is on the property of the Hagood Mill historical park of Pickens County. After the discovery of the figures, a decision was made to enclose the stone and provide artificial, indirect lighting to prevent the vandalism which has too often occurred at open air rock art sites, and to allow visitors to more easily see the figures. The result is the South Carolina Rock Art Center, scheduled for opening in 2014. In addition to the presentation, in situ, of the Hagood Mill Rock, the museum will interpret other sites in the region and have museum displays of pre-contact artifacts and some examples of rock art long since removed from its original location.

For now, see Hagood Mill Historical Park.

Note: Carolinas’ rocks hold ancient messages. Summary article with emphasis on the South Carolina ROck Art Center set to open in 2014.
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Carolinas’ rocks hold ancient messages. by bat400 on Tuesday, 31 December 2013
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Very few people know that a wealth of ancient rock art lies in their backyard, hidden among the Carolinas foothills and mountains. Not as elaborate, well-preserved or easily interpreted as those in France and the Southwest, there are nevertheless more than 100 sites where archaeologists think prehistoric people expressed themselves with the tools at hand – stones for chipping, clay for painting.

At the prehistoric sites, there are human and animal stick figures, tracks of deer and bear, circles within circles, crosses within circles, and geometric designs totally incomprehensible to 21st-century eyes.

Age and authorship are generally unknown, though radiocarbon dating of the faded red and yellow pigment on the Paint Rock pictograph on the North Carolina-Tennessee border indicates it was painted 5,000 years ago.

Until 16 years ago, only a handful of sites, including Paint Rock and Cullowhee’s Judaculla Rock, significant to Cherokee legend, were known to the public. Then, in 1997, archaeologist Tommy Charles of the S.C. Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology gathered interested volunteers and formed the S.C. Rock Art Survey. The finds soon started adding up, until at last count there were 63 petroglyph (stone carving) sites, containing hundreds of images – prehistoric, historic and undetermined. There are four pictograph (painting) sites, all prehistoric.

For public viewing

One public site is Judaculla Rock, in private hands for many years but now, as a Cherokee Cultural Heritage Site, the centerpiece of a small Jackson County-owned park near Cullowhee.

It’s the prominent soapstone boulder where, in Cherokee legend, Master of Game Animals Tsul’Kalu’ (Anglicized as “Judaculla”) gave chase to disobedient hunters. Leaping from his home on Tanasee Bald, he left his seven-fingered handprint. It’s one of many images archaeologists believe were carved at different periods.

Landscaping and a raised boardwalk for hands-off viewing surround the rock, which was recently put on the National Register of Historic Places.

Soon to be a public attraction, a large flat-topped rock was discovered just eight years ago at historic Hagood Mill in Pickens County, S.C.

As is typical of much Southeastern art, the 31 images there, most of them prehistoric, are so eroded that they’re practically invisible in direct sunlight.

A survey volunteer who had seen nothing there in bright sun decided to go back on a rainy day in 2005. “Tom, you’re not going to believe this,” he told archaeologist Charles when he excitedly called him. “That Hagood rock is covered with little people.”

Those 18 “little people” and the other images on a 30- by 40-foot section of the boulder have been enclosed in one room of a new two-room building erected by Pickens County Museum ( http://bit.ly/16SdW1r).
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The handicapped-accessible minimuseum is expected to open [in 2014], with low lighting illuminating the images and a circular walkway surrounding them.

Dating rock art in the moisture-laden Southeast is considerably trickier than in the arid West, where a naturally occurring “varnish” can seal organic matter into petroglyph grooves. Organic matter can be dated by the rate of its decay, but in the Carolinas, much of that gets washed away.

Though Charles has retired and Ashcraft says the N.C. Rock Art Survey is now focusing on conservation, they and the other volunteers continue to explore, and to make new discoveries.

They invite the public to be on the lookout, too, and to notify them if they find something: Charles at Tommy.charles601@gmail.com, and Ashcraft at sashcraft@fs.fed.us.

Thanks to coldrum for the link. Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com
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