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  • Talking leaves and rocks that teach: the archaeological discovery of Sequoyah's oldest written record

  • Rex Weeks, Ken Tankersley
  • Journal:
    Antiquity / Volume 85 / Issue 329 / September 2011
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 January 2015, pp. 978-993
    Print publication:
    September 2011

  • The authors investigate the origins of the earliest script of the Cherokees, using inscriptions in the Red Bird River Shelter. Their analysis suggests that the engravings in the cave show the experimental creation of a syllabary (alphabet of signs). This in turn offers support for the historical notion that this writing system was not an ancestral practice preserved through missionaries, but an invention of the early nineteenth century; one that should be credited to the Native American pioneer scholar, Sequoyah.