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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
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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
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- In the valley of a small brook in Bedford, MA
- Questions Welcome
- Part 2 - More from BPSF, NY
- Nispashuck update
- In the Circle and by the Line
- More from Beal's Pond State Forest, NY
- "Nipsachuck News" - submitted to the NEARA Transit.
- A site in the snow?
- Nispachuck Hill
- Beal's Pond State Forest, NY
- Prayers in Stone
- Some Nipsachuck rock piles contain 700 year old hu...
- Nipsachuk - Big news coming
- Collapse of Glacial Lake Agassiz drives early peop...
- A walk in the snow with FFC
- Delaware State Forest - Stone Walls
- Geocaching mentions rock piles
- Old stone walls and new structures - more Callahan...
- A small rock pile site in Callahan State Forest - ...
- Modeling river flow
- Welcoming Theseventhgeneration
- Hi Tor Stone videos
- Boulders and a Swamp
- Stone wall ending in split boulder - a photo
- Wall ending in split boulder
- Ancient Archeology Book - link to eBay from rklopchin
- More about "Indians did not build in stone" from L...
- THE MYSTERY OF THE MONUMENT MOUNTAIN STONE HEAP By...
- More snow
- A "D" shaped space enclosed by stone walls
- A stone-lined hollow on Fox Hill Billerica, MA
- Iz'zat a rock pile ????
- New England Sacred Sites Remain Threatened
- Vottovaara Follow-up
- Wamesit - Once a Praying Indian village, now a Dri...
- More snow
- Preview - a small site in Tewskbury
- More "Someplace in Leominster State Forest, April ...
- Somewhere in Leominster State Forest, April 2007 p...
- Photos of somewhere in Leominster State Forest fro...
- Reading the visitor logs
- More photos of rock piles
- Bluff Point Ruins
- Remembering the summer
- Weather forecast - looking good for the weekend.
- Stone Mound Culture
- "Weird Georgia" by Jim Miles
- National Archaeological Database Query Results for...
- Old Fulton NY Postcards.
- Reaching back - June 2006, someplace in Harvard, MA
- Ellery's Geo/Arch/Sci Blog
- Native and Inuit Art blog
- Aah the confluence of brooks
- ...and at Larry Harrop's
- New finds at Two Headwaters Blog
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5 comments :
So who got the bones dated?
No One:
The article is also incorrect, the bones were sent out to be tested, the charcoal from the site was carbon tested and the dates were set between 490-700 BP, thus, the story stays alive. The truth be known, ths story has caused myself and the conservation commission a great deal of trouble.
Dr. Meli.
What is the association between the charcoal and the bones? Was the charcoal from a ritual feature associated with the burial? Or, was this a cremation burial? Or, something else ...
Second question - the 490-700 BP date range, is this calibrated or uncalibrated?
James Gage
www.StoneStructures.org
Another question is: with the site where the charcoal and bones were collected so disturbed ("over 10 meteres"), how do we know all of the carbon samples came from under one rock pile?
How does one explain the preservation of the bones? Usually the soils in New England are so acidic that bones are not preserved -- unless the soils in N. Smithfield are more basic, meaning that carbonates are present thus neutralizing the acidity.
Norman
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