Michael Fuller

The Cactus Cove pictograph site has been known to a handful of farmers in Warren County for at least 100 years. The site is situated on private property and is not open to the public.

Cactus Cove Pictograph Site (23WN1156)

DStretch image using the YRE enhancement of the whole panel showing the drying rack, circle, lower band of pictographs.

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Professor Michael Fuller points to the most vivid red pictograph at the site; photograph from 2012.

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Upper pictograph panel of 3 animal skins over a rack. Photograph by Mike Chervinko.

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XRF 91 and 93 = Top row of vivid skinning rack

, Silicon = 93.143% +/- 6.312, Aluminum = 5.46%3 +/- 1.138, and Iron = 1.246% +/- 0.295. PPM analysis: Antimony = 92.59 +/- 10.48, Tin = 50.2 +/- 9.42, Cadmium = 35.2 +/- 7.16, Palladium = 6.27+/- 3.7, Silver = 125.64 +/- 11.18, Zirconium = 69.27 +/- 6.52, Iron = 989.23 +/- 47.19, Barium = 509.32 +/- 38.14, and Strontinum = 17.59 +/- 2.31.




XRF 92 and 94 = Lower row of faint skinning rack

, Silicon = 95.989% +/- 6.734, Aluminm = 3.578% +/- 1.192, and Iron = 0.361% +/- 0.152. PPM analysis = Antimony = 76.84 +/- 10.09, Tin = 77.19 +/- 9.36, Cadmium = 25.34 +/- 6.88, Silver = 103.58 +/- 10.77, Zirconium = 58.71 +/- 6.24, Zinc = 9.5 +/- 4.75, Iron = 451.46 +/- 34.34, Barium = 548.59 +/- 37.4, Strontium = 11.54 +/- 2.1, and Rubidium = 2.93 +/- 1.43.

XRF xx = Clean Wall

, Silicon = 95.533% +/- 3.501, Aluminum = 3.737%. +/- 0.733, and Iron = 0.704 +/- 0.202v

Prof. Fuller taking pXRF readings for elemental analysis on red pigment pictographs at the Cactus Cove Site.

Photograph by Richard Orr. 

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