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This is about rock piles and stone mound sites in New England. A balance is needed between keeping them secret and making them public. Also arrowheads, stone tools and other surface archaeology.
A Book about Rock Piles
Contact
rockpilesmail@gmail.com
Contributors
Blogs and Other Links
- Waking Up on Turtle Island
- Secret Landscapes
- Larry Harrop
- Two Headwaters
- Laurel Hill Walks
- Historical Writings on US Antiquities
- Traces In the Woods
- Ceremonial Stoneworks of the NorthEast
- Rock Piles of Northeast CT
- Pre-historic stone works in the Town of Catskill
- A New England Woodland
- Stone Wings
- The People of One Fire
- INSIDE NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR ARCHAEOLOGY
- Tispaquin's Revenge
- Menotomy Maps
- My Red Schoolhouse
- Bay States - the Bay Circuit Trail
- Rhode Island Footprints
- Derek Gunn's Amazing Massachusetts
- Relics of the Ancients
- Indian Stones/Cairns/Intentions
- Fort Devens Stone Wall MAP [PDF]
- STUPID SHEET
- Stone Ruins, Cellar Walls
- Hi Tor Stone Monuments
- Concord Lithics
- Indian Rockpiles by Peter Waksman
- Lithic Roxborough
- Chenango Archaeologists
- New England Megaliths
- Heritage Daily
- New England Antiquities Research Association (NEARA)
- Stone Cairns of West -Central Texas
- Mojave Desert Blog
- Native American Research and Preservation, Inc
Blog Archive
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- Outlet to a spring fed pond
- Springtime in Estabrook Woods, Concord
- New photos from Larry Harrop
- Small Ground Piles on Oak Hill Littleton, MA
- Split Boulder ceremony - Oak Hill Littleton
- A rock-on-rock
- Thanks Larry, for the link
- New Mystery Hill articles - James Gage writes in.
- Snake Site, continued
- Of Wasps and Snakes
- A great Larry Harrop photo
- Site behind Carlisle Insititute
- Some rock pile people
- Fish making rock piles in West VA
- More Georgia rock piles - Fort Mountain
- Prehistoric field clearing piles
- Georgia developers vs Rock Pile preservation activ...
- Giving a talk tonight (Wednesday)
- Rt 202 Final Summary
- Pocono site revisited
- Turtle-like pile from Freeman Rd off Rt 202
- Elongated Piles, Freemand Rd off Rt 202 New Salem, MA
- Another site along Rt 202, New Salem
- A rock pile quality rating system
- Minor roadside attractions out west of Quabbin
- Flying stones of Lapland
- "Petroform" links
- Rt 202 Roadtrip - Lots of new sites to report
- New Photos from Larry Harrop
- Appetizer
- Canadian History - Aboriginal News
- Rock art blog - mostly about cup marks
- Back to Moosehorn Rd
- Midway Twins Melting
- The hill across from the bend in the river
- Check out Geophiles other blog
- Oley Terraced Boulders site - from Norman Muller
- A Site in Northampton County, Pennsylvania
- Turtle Stuff from Tim MacSweeney
- One thing we need to keep in mind when looking for...
- Rock piles for the general public
- The origins of Rocky Brook Stirling MA
- James Gage discusses Mystery Hill
- Some geology examples from Stirling
- Ancient Stone Sites of New England
- Small Sites along Rock Brook in Stirling MA
- Eel Weir - from Norman M.
- New Larry Harrop photos
- Equinunck PA - Norman Muller follows up on Bob Pea...
- A platform pile site in Westford MA
- Two rock piles in Lexington MA
- Wall at Vera Cruz
- A minor site on the Carlisle-Billerica line
- More sites coming soon
- Somewhere in New Jersey
- Another large berm, perhaps a serpent - from the J...
- Rock piles forbidden
- Silver Lake Rock Cairns (California Desert?)
- Killingworth CT - Acorn Bed and Breakfast
- Montana Rock piles re-built
- Here is one from an otherwise barren hill just eas...
- A simple effigy from Littleton MA
- About the link to Mogollon rock piles
- Some links
- Some links
- Rock pile Site Number 1 at Wilderness Hill Littleton
- Delaware River Trip - more from Bob Peal
- Cairns from Morris County NJ - from Robert Peal
- Quartz on stone wall - from Norman Muller
- Near Fort Pond
- Serpent Mounds, Turtle Mounds and John Hansen Mitc...
- Larry Harrop writes:
- Quartz-on-rock
- The heart of Nashoba
- Try Again - video shorts
- Centuries of Wear
- Link sent in by Geodowser
- Long Thin Pile - Littleton
- A sharpening stone?
- Between a spring and a lime kiln (2)
- When we first came here
- Between a spring and a lime kiln.
- Just nice colors
- Rock pile picture of the week
- Foxwoods and Indian ceremonial rock piles
- Seats looking over Kibbe's Cellar Hole in Concord
- In And Of Themselves
- Prayer seat in plain sight
- Ozark rock pile
- Archeology by satellite
- Monroe County Site, Last Part
- Someone notices Cairns in Parker Woodland
- EZ Storage by Rt 3 - a roadside attraction from th...
- Detail of Hematite on Chamber - from Norman Muller
- Scotrun Chamber / nearby sites
- More minor details requested
- More from the Monroe County Rock Pile Site
- Cairns and small chambers in Washington MA, from N...
- Monroe County Cairn Field
- Quartz Outline near a vernal pond on a hill in Shi...
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2 comments :
Hadn't read about this before. Boy, they really need to post more and better photos of these piles if they want any informed speculation. I can't get a sense of what they're like at all. I guess to most people a stone pile is a stone pile, but we all know that's not true.
Interesting about the Africans building them, though. I had that thought when I went to Putnam County, NY, and saw the chambers there. (Maybe I can dig out some pictures . . . ) Very impressive, but they looked so new compared to stuff I'd been accustomed to looking at in PA, and in a very different style. Africans were one of the possibilities that came to mind.
One way to check this out would be to see if there is any stone building tradition among the Blacks in Africa that is similar to what has been found in Birchtown.
In a somewhat similar vein, an article appeared in the bulletin of the Connecticut Historical Society years ago that claimed that many of the stone features at Gungywamp could have been constructed by freed slaves. Blacks, we know, often intermarried with American Indians, both being persecuted people, and so one should not dismiss this idea outright without doing more research.
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