Judaculla Rock in western North Carolina is a major archaeological and sacred site centered on a soapstone outcrop covered with about 1,548 ancient petroglyph motifs, including cup marks, curving forms, stick-like figures, rills, concentric rings, and deer tracks. The site also preserves evidence of soapstone quarrying and bowl manufacture from the Late Archaic period, while many carvings appear to date from later Middle Woodland through late Mississippian times. In Cherokee tradition, the markings were made by Judaculla, or Tsul 'Kalu, and the rock remained a place of offerings and petitions connected to hunting. It is regarded as the most heavily petroglyphed known boulder east of the Mississippi River.