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Site Information for Lookout Cave

ActivitiesAmerican Heritage#Archaeology#Cultural#Education#History#Native Art
AltSiteTypesLandmark#National Historic Site#Registered Historic Site#State Historic Site
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DateCreated12/21/2024 5:02:46 PM
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Latitude47.9174361
Longitude-108.5253185
MailingCityMalta
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MailingStreet501 S 2nd St E
MailingZip59538
NetDescriptionsLocated in Phillips County, the cave contains north-central Montana’s largest assemblage of pictographs, which, combined with the cultural materials also found there, are of enormous value in understanding the pre-contact cultures of the Northern Plains. The cave’s twenty identified rock art panels depict paint smears, lines, hand prints, an outline bison at the rear wall of the inner chamber, and more than twenty anthropomorphs. In addition, recovered cultural materials include a large number of stone tools and more than a thousand normally perishable items of wood, feather, shell, and sinew. The composition of the assemblage combined with the remote setting of the site strongly suggests that it does not represent a conventional campsite/habitation site, but instead a ceremonial complex predominantly dating to the Late Prehistoric Period.
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SiteNameLookout Cave
SiteRegionMissouri River
SiteRegMemMISSOURI RIVER
SiteTypeNational Historic Site
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