Cave, state park. They were left to hide bite native americans who lived in the area 9000 years ago. This is located five miles south of the links, montana. This is the home of some of the first people ever in the northern plains. The people that lived here really were dependent completely on the natural environment, the place around them. They traveled small distances just following the game. This place offered them shelter, food, water, medicine, and a sense of security. Pictograph cave itself. It is important in a place like this to let your eyes adjust to this because youre looking at charcoal drawings that are over 1000 years old from 20 feet back. If you sit here and watch, eventually some of these images will kind of emerge. At one point, the ceiling was painted. There were boulders in front of the cave that were painted. This place really was like the sistine chapel. There was images all over it. The first thing that most people see when they come here are the red pigments beca
South of billings montana. This is the home of some of the first people ever in the northern plains. The people that lived here really were dependent completely on the natural environment, the place around them. They traveled small distances just following the game. This place offered them shelter, food, water, medicine, and a sense of security. This is pictograph cave itself. It is important in a place like this to let your eyes adjust to this because youre looking at charcoal drawings that are over 1000 years old from 20 feet back. If you sit here and watch, eventually some of these images will kind of emerge. At one point, the ceiling was painted. There were boulders in front of the cave that were painted. This place really was like the sistine chapel. There was images all over it. The first thing that most people see when they come here are the red pigments because they tend to be the more recent. And they are more vibrant. If you look up here, this first thing were looking at is w
Sistine chapel. There was images all over it. The first thing that most people see when they come here are the red pigments because they tend to be the more recent. And they are more vibrant. If you look up here, this first thing were looking at is what we call a biographic scene which means it tells a story. If you miss a part of the image you will miss a piece of the story. In this instance we have seven flintlock rifles all being fired. Then there is a number of dash marks below and this is the same pigment, the same diameter. Part of the same image. This is a beaver, a dead beaver. It is you can see its pigtail and there is two webbed feet and a dot on it because it has been killed. There is a lightning bolt coming out of its mouth. That is it so leaving its body. Its energy. This is a group of for trappers that were ambushed right near here and this was in 1823. Seven of them were killed in that ambush. 23 of them got away. Seven of these for trappers were killed and they took all
It was painted up there approximately 2145 years before, you have a 2000yearold hurtle. You have a millennium of time. When we consider the value of pictograph cave state park, the park is named for the pictograph and that is a significant part of the occupation story but for archaeologists and anthropologists there is more cultural value in the artifacts that were excavated. Excavation started in 1937 but people were here well before that digging in the cave. This road here was called the reservation road for a lot of years because it was the most direct route to prior. During the stagecoach times people would stay here, they would water their horses and go up and look at the pictographs and some of them would dig for artifacts. That continued up until it became a wpa excavation and that went up until 1941. Excavation that happened was a group of local people from billings, they saw the value in the number of artifacts that seemed to be there in the deposition that was present. And th
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