Case file · Sacred site

Track Rock Gap

Soapstone boulders near Blairsville carved with footprints, circles and crosses; the Cherokee call the place Datsu'nalasgun'yi, 'where there are tracks'. A Dr Stevenson described them in 1834.

1834 CE · 34.88, -83.88 · status: official

The sceptical view

Claims in 2011 that Maya refugees built terraces nearby were rejected by archaeologists and the US Forest Service.

Sources

  1. Mooney, Myths of the Cherokee (1900), Project Gutenberg
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