Visualizing the Sacred: Cosmic Visions, Regionalism, and the Art of the Mississippian World (Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies)

by George E. Lankford

A much more extensive analysis of the tablet was undertaken by William Myer (1928), Tennessee’s first professional archaeologist. Based on Holmes’s drawing, Myer interpreted the tablet as a storyboard: “the record of a war between the prehistoric