Update: Norman Muller sent these photos taken by the state archaeologist of West Virginia. Apparently there are other sites nearby.
There certainly seems to be something geometric going on.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Question: West Virginia rock piles?
Does anyone know how to find well-formed rock piles - "cairn sites" in West Virginia?
Update: Norman Muller sent these photos taken by the state archaeologist of West Virginia. Apparently there are other sites nearby.
There certainly seems to be something geometric going on.
Update: Norman Muller sent these photos taken by the state archaeologist of West Virginia. Apparently there are other sites nearby.
There certainly seems to be something geometric going on.
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I know of one site, and I have a friend who knows of more.
How does it compare with sites in New England?
Very much like what we find in New England, with examples like large cone-shaped cairns, a platform cairn, walls or terraces, etc. I'll forward some photos.
Thanks. Are the archeologist down there convinced they are colonial farm constructions?
The state archaeologist I know is pretty much convinced that the stone features are American Indian. Most archaeologists in the mid-South don't have the hangup that those in New England do.
[writing later] We are just so unbelievably lucky to still find these structures - they have survived miraculously.
[much later] f'in ostentatious
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