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

Jan F. Simek; Beau Duke Carroll; Julie Reed; Alan Cressler; Tom Belt; Wayna Adams; Mary White

doi:10.1017/aaq.2020.5

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

Jan F. Simek, Beau Duke Carroll, Julie Reed, Alan Cressler, Tom Belt, Wayna Adams, Mary White

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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 shelter or its petroglyphs in the ways they suggest. There is still no evidence that Sequoyah ever spent any time in the vicinity of Red Bird River Shelter.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	388-391
Number of pages	4
Journal	American Antiquity
Volume	85
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2020.5
State	Published - Apr 1 2020

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