Lemonweir_Glyphs

Lemonweir Glyphs

Lemonweir Glyphs

Historic petroglyphs in Wisconsin, United States

The Lemonweir Glyphs (or petroglyphs) are a set of carvings by early Native Americans near the Lemonweir River in Juneau County, Wisconsin. They were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1][2]

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Some time before recorded history, people in Wisconsin's Driftless Area climbed partway up a bluff above a river and carved marks on a sheltered spot in a sandstone wall. Some of the marks are indecipherable, but others depict animals: a fish, a deer or elk, a thunderbird, a heron or crane, a buffalo, a lizard, and a deer or antelope. The largest animal is twelve inches tall. The deepest carvings are nearly a half inch deep and the shallowest are only faintly visible. Some of the images have been damaged by modern initial-cutters.[3]

Nearby, more marks are cut into a seven-foot sandstone boulder. The top and one side are cut with various arrangements of vertical, horizontal and diagonal lines - all abstract, with no animals.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. [2]
    "Lemonweir Glyphs". Wisconsin Historical Society. January 2012. Retrieved November 20, 2017.
  3. [3]
    Brown, Charles E. (1937). "Petroglyphs at the Mouth of the Lemonweir River". Wisconsin Archeologist. 17 (4): 76–78.
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