Researchers from the University of Tennessee examined 94 rock art sites in the Cumberland Plateau, a section of the Appalachian Mountains. Carvings and paintings of these sites were created by different tribes of prehistoric Native Americans some 6000 years ago. Researchers came to the conclusion that these tribes had a unified three-layered cosmological view, similar to the "heaven-earth-hell" concept of European and Asian cults and religions.It is interesting to see that ancient societies, although spatially isolated, came up with similar theories in cosmology. Is it possible that these belief systems are the results of natural human intuition?
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