the Thruston Tablet’s artist may have had access to the work of the Lightner artist, who was a master of the Braden A or Classic Braden style, which, if Brown (2004) is correct, may have originated in the vicinity of Cahokia. Thus the Lightner artist’s work, and the Classic Braden corpus in general, may have provided a canonical model for aspects of the imagery on the Thruston Tablet.
