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The High Rock Petroglyph (rock art) makes a good case for the theory that the Maya/Aztec cultures of Central America DID make pre-European contact with North American peoples. The Red River Gorge area in Kentucky was one of the last places of refuge for some North American indigenous people, and there is a reality that individuals mentally protect and preserve their spiritual needs, accompanied by physical paraphernalia, ritual, and ceremony. The High Rock Petroglyph with its carved image of a "religious leader," and the accompanying evidence of a skull carving and Weeping Eye symbol discovered in a near-by rock shelter, are perhaps the last remnants of a disappearing culture, artifacts of their spiritual needs, and the last of the indigenous ones to occupy the gorge area. Migrating people from Central America between 900AD and 1500AD contributed to the blossoming Mississippian cultures that spread along the southern North American shores, and into the river systems of mid-America. The Southern Death Cult, presumably originating with the Moundville, Alabama culture, exhibits artifacts and paraphernalia suggesting the distribution and influence of Central American people on the developing, North American cultures after the collapse of the Maya Classic period. Alan Cornette's artistic vision illuminates a subject that has all too long been neglected.

Alan Cornette (Al Cornett, the artist) illuminates a subject that has too long been neglected; that is, the subject of intimate culture contact between North America and Central America long before the European incursion of the 15th century. One important example of this contact is a rock art image found in the Red River Gorge area of Kentucky. This evidence, the High Rock Petroglyph, exhibits imagery revealing a connection to the golden sun disk of the Aztec Empire of Central America. The booklet also provides evidence of the possible migrations of the Maya culture after the end of their Classic Period about 900AD. In 2005, Mr. Cornette published a book, The Sandstone Chronicles, which provided an overview of his half-a-century experience of researching rock art of Kentucky and the southwestern United States. His second book, Seven Mountains and the Red Star (2008), illuminates the Maya and their calendar that supposedly ended in 2012, and the implications suggested by the ending of a Precession Equinoctial period A Bachelor of Science degree from Eastern Kentucky University in 1959, and his lifelong pursuit of illustration and fine-art painting gave him the combination of experiences to help analyze the reasons for rock art images produced by the indigenous people living in the New World before America was "discovered" by the rest of the world.