page_title: Tainter Cave
hierarchical_section_title: Tainter Cave
caption_attribution_description: English: Tracing of prehistoric pictograph from Tainter Cave in southwest Wisconsin - possibly an image of a baby on a cradle-board.
context_page_description: Tainter Cave, also known as Tombstone Cave, is a dry sandstone cave in Crawford County, Wisconsin, in which prehistoric Native Americans carved petroglyphs and drew pictographs, including birds, men, deer, and abstract designs. With over 100 pictographs, the cave holds more than any other known site in Wisconsin. It is also notable as the first archaeological site recorded in the dark zone of a cave in the Upper Midwest.
context_section_description: Tainter Cave, also known as Tombstone Cave, is a dry sandstone cave in Crawford County, Wisconsin, in which prehistoric Native Americans carved petroglyphs and drew pictographs, including birds, men, deer, and abstract designs. With over 100 pictographs, the cave holds more than any other known site in Wisconsin. It is also notable as the first archaeological site recorded in the dark zone of a cave in the Upper Midwest.
caption: Tracing of a pictograph from inside the cave's entrance. Robert F. Boszhardt posits[2] this may represent a baby on a cradleboard.
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