WOW. Archaeologists have discovered oldest cave art hidden for more than 6,000 years in Tennessee.

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57. Dunbar Cave used to be a very popular site,

in Northern Middle TN. It's actually quite close to Ft. Campbell. Currently, all caves in TN are closed to the public because of White-Nose fungal disease that is running rampant among the bats here.

The article also mentioned Mound Bottoms in Cheatham County. I actually live in Cheatham County which borders the west of Metro Nashville/Davidson County. I have been on a tour of Mound Bottoms, which used to be a Mississippian Native American village. Our guide has us go to the top of the Main Mound a few at a time in complete silence, until he joined us. I tend to be Agnostic, but I cannot deny what I felt on top of that mound. When our guide joined us, he asked us what we felt. All of us felt the same thing - a feeling of cleansing. I can only describe it as "magical".

The tour also included a short climb to the top of the bluff across from Mound Bottoms, which I have climbed before. But he showed us more Native American artwork that actually pointed across the street to Mound Bottoms - which I had never noticed before. It also included two instances of "flying 7's". They look like big red 7's. The odd thing about them is that they are on the side of steep bluffs that people have tried to rappel to and were unsuccessful. No one knows who did them, or how.

The Cumberland Plateau is actually about halfway between Nashville and Knoxville. I go camping in the Plateau almost every year, and still haven't been to half of the public access spots. It's truly beautiful!