Alan Cressler

Biographic Data

ID299088
NAMEAlan Cressler
GIVEN NAMESAlan
FAMILY NAMECressler
SIGNATURECRESSLER A
AFFILIATIONSAID Atlanta
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS11
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX2

  • Discovering ancient cave art using 3D photogrammetry: Pre-contact Native American mud glyphs from 19 th Unnamed Cave, Alabama

    Open AccessJan F Simek, Stephen Alvarez et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2022Cited by: 1References: 12

    Since 1979, when the first cave art was documented in North America, dozens of other examples have come to light. Among these, 19 th Unnamed Cave in Alabama contains hundreds of pre-contact Native American mud glyph drawings. In 2017, 3D modelling of the glyphs was initiated, ultimately enabling digital manipulation of the chamber space and revealing images that could not be perceived prior to modelling. Most surprisingly, the cave's ceiling feat…

  • There Is No Cherokee Syllabary at Red Bird River Shelter (15CY52): Reply to Tankersley and Weeks

    Open AccessJan F Simek, Beau Duke Carroll et al.ARTICLEAmerican Antiquity2020References: 6

    Despite new arguments by Tankersley and Weeks that we misinterpreted petroglyph engravings and ignored site formation processes at the Red Bird River Shelter in Kentucky (15CY52), we remain convinced that there is no evidence for Cherokee Syllabary writing at the site. The petroglyphs are clearly not symbols present in any version of the Cherokee Syllabary. There is no empirical evidence for any site formation processes that have altered the shel…

  • Talking stones: Cherokee syllabary in Manitou Cave, Alabama

    Open AccessBeau Duke Carroll, Alan Cressler et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2019Cited by: 4References: 2

  • The Red Bird River Shelter (15CY52) Revisited: The Archaeology of the Cherokee Syllabary and of Sequoyah in Kentucky

    Open AccessJan F Simek, Beau Duke Carroll et al.ARTICLEAmerican Antiquity2019Cited by: 1References: 3

    This article reanalyzes petroglyphs from the Red Bird River Shelter (15CY52), a small sandstone shelter in Kentucky. In 2009-2013, it was claimed that some of the carvings at the site represented the earliest known examples of Cherokee Syllabary writing, dating to the first two decades of the nineteenth century. It was also suggested that Sequoyah, the Cherokee artist and intellectual who invented the Cherokee Syllabary in the early nineteenth ce…

  • Prehistoric Rock Art From Painted Bluff and the Landscape of North Alabama Rock Art

    Jan F Simek, Alan Cressler et al.ARTICLESoutheastern Archaeology2013Cited by: 2References: 2

    Painted Bluff in northern Alabama is one of the richest and most elaborate open-air rock art localities in the Eastern Woodlands, rivaling some of the Southeast’s dark zone cave art sites discovered over the past several decades. Known for more than a century, the site has never seen detailed documentation until now. Painted Bluff contains motifs similar to iconography associated with Mississippian ceremonial objects, and a radiocarbon age determ…

  • Sacred landscapes of the south-eastern USA: Prehistoric rock and cave art in Tennessee

    Open AccessJan F Simek, Alan Cressler et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2013Cited by: 3References: 8

    Systematic field exploration in Tennessee has located a wealth of new rock art-some deep in caves, some in the open air. The authors show that these have a different repertoire and use of colour, and a different distribution in the landscape-the open sites up high and the caves down low. The landscape has been reorganised on cosmological terms by the pre-Columbian societies. This research offers an exemplary rationale for reading rock art beyond …