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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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- Bronze Age Serpent Mound from Brittain
- Nice Videos at "Waking up on Turtle Island"
- South Hill - Middlesex NY
- Some ideas from the NEARA conference
- People I saw at the Spring 2008 NEARA conference
- A grinding stone "central to the rock formations"
- Driving out to the NEARA meeting
- "Many, cache, heap."
- More on the "Indian Look"
- Stone Sightings in the Stony Swamp, Ottawa
- Horned Creature and other possible effigies with q...
- A site along a brook and wetland near Parker Villa...
- Stone wall "look"
- The "Indian Look"
- Arctic China State Forest, NY
- Next to a swamp behind a school in Littleton, MA
- Connectedness
- Piles along Beaver Brook, seen from the Hartwell R...
- Sudbury State Forest - a knoll at the confluence o...
- Brook confluence - Sudbury State Forest
- Interesting structure from Sudbury State Forest
- Video of the curve of rock piles from a high hill ...
- Looking towards the Wachusett Reservoir from a Hig...
- Fred Meli's new blog
- Still Hill Farm
- Hey - don't forget NEARA next weeked
- Some nice scenes at Rocky Pond
- Split-wedged rocks from Rocky Pond - Boylston, MA
- Horned Creature Effigy
- Having trouble keeping up with the new sites
- Preview
- Peacock-Turkey Hybrid?
- Turtles sunning
- Sweat Lodges
- A nice little bit of writing
- Gap and Pile - Examples from Rocky Pond
- A good weekend
- Jim P's new blog
- Article On Split Boulders
- Another split boulder from a high hill in Berlin
- Archeology Videos
- Whitaker Swamp, Deposit, NY
- Finding a rock pile site at Rocky Pond Boylston, MA
- A boundary indicator rock pile
- Gap and Pile
- Other topo map sites
- On a mountain, above Cokeose (Deposit) and the Wes...
- View west to Wachusett Reservoir from a high hill ...
- A beautiful little rock pile
- RIP Topozone
- NEARA Conference April 25-27, Northampton MA
- Rock Piles in a Breakout Zone East of Rocky Pond
- Algonquian Culture
- A little birdie told me...
- Signs
- More on that Southborough site I was talking about
- A fine spirit door, Rocky Pond Boylston, MA
- YouTube Debate
- Southwestern facing slopes looking across a wetland
- Are there any rock piles in Nova Scotia?
- Larry Harrop blogs the Easton "Cave"
- Manchester MA - Mounds
- Chateaugay Lake, NY Blog
- "Cairns" from New Marlborough and Sheffield MA
- Boom, Bust, or Barkaboom?
- Hole through a rock pile. Hard to believe it is a ...
- A relation between rock piles sites and the easter...
- Another pond just to the north
- By a pond
- Red Wing, MN Cairns
- "Cave" entrance found on a photoblog
- Tree of Peace
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7 comments :
Just quoting from "1491" by Charles C. Mann (thanks to Tim for the reco on this book), it says "Incredible to imagine today, bison roamed from New York to Georgia. A creature of the prairie, Bison bison was imported to the East by Native Americans along a path of indigenous fire, as they changed enough forest into fallows for it to survive far outside its original range."
That is an impressive rock pile!
I have a strong belief that such a fine pile could not remain un-damaged for long. Meaning if it represents a buffalo, that would be more likely based on seeing pictures of buffalo than seeing actual buffalo.
FFC says maybe it is a "Horned Serpent" - something to do with the underworld.
I vote Buffalo. Look up(google)Katonah, the man from the town of the same name; I seem to recall a history relating his 1700's stories about going down to White Plains to hunt Buffalo...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Katonah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LSITqICu-8
There is no hump - one of the main distinctive features of a buffalo and quite easy to do in a rock pile. So I remain skeptical of the buffalo identification.
I wonder if someone can make sense out of the piece of quartz behind the head. What horned creature has something special on its neck?
I called our local buffalo farm and the person I spoke with said some of their buffalo have distinctive humps, but others do not. I'm still on the fence on this one, but leaning toward buffalo. Another thing to consider is the subspecies of buffalo. Wood or Bison bison athabascae differs from Bison bison bison. I'm not sure if this could account for the difference in the size of the hump.
Looking at pictures of bison lying down, the hump seems less prominent, even non-existent in some photos. I wonder if this could be an explanation?
Here is an interesting link that might explain the quartz, if the quartz is meant to emphasize the hump that is not there (wow, that's an enigma):
Buffalo Hump Roast
Changing my vote, all these years later. Not a bison but a "Horned Serpent." Some HS petrogylphs show deer-like horns, but some have bison-like horns - and some have both. Uktena is the Cherokee name associated, but after some email communications with Jannie Loubser, it is probably whatever the Spirit Being was called in the language the builder spoke. The quartz rhomboidal stone could be a scale or even a representation of the "crystal on the Uktena’s head...called ulstĭtlĭ’," literally “it is on its head.” Jannie also says, "...in the hands of the medicine person it becomes ulûñsû’tĭ, or “transparent.” So considered together, the changing names and contexts for Uktena horns (also called ulstitli) and crystals imply that the thoughts on the head of the snake became transparent to the person who possessed it (Personal Communication 7/21/2015)."
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