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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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- Bolton, MA Woods - videos
- Old stone tool from Acton
- Good walking
- Update on the effigy with quartz
- A few more piles from last weekend
- A little outcrop ceremony
- Ruins, Mounds, Field Clearing, or What?
- Snake Legend
- East side of Peach Hill - a gridded site next to a...
- Last Look at Peach Hill
- Effigy with quartz - trying to make sense of it.
- Serpentine wall - Northern Berkshires
- Stone Row in Delaware Water Gap
- Rock Pile Vandalism
- Fishweir Blues
- Bringing back the American Chestnut
- Native American Tribal Historic Officers speak abo...
- Peach Hill Videos
- A hillside covered with marker pile clusters
- Ceremonial Landscape - Discussion by Tribal Elders
- Clam Gardens
- Articles about EMC development plan
- EMC - threat to Indian Stone Mounds
- EMC threatens Indian Sacred Stone Mounds in Southb...
- Appetizer
- Dig uncovers significant historical site in Narrag...
- No Less Sacred
- Fall colors at Marble Hill - Stow, MA
- Small Marker Pile cluster on Marble Hill
- "In the gunsight" - openings intersected
- Nice picture of small chamber from Larry Harrop
- Saving Judaculla Rock
- Critical Mass and Blogs re-enforcing each other
- Propped boulders and Manitou stones - slideshow fr...
- Tispaquin's Revenge
- Gap Piles
- Stone Pile in Winslow, Maine
- EMC expansion threatens rock pile sites
- Hawea Heiau
- Stone walls are not all made by colonial farmers
- Don't Ignore the rocks!
- Rock on Boulder, etc
- Split boulders from Norman Muller
- Colonial Sheep Farm
- Ohio Archeology Blog
- Southern Callahan State Park - Framingham, MA.
- Interpretation / "meaning"
- Atlantic Conference in Nova Scotia
- New "study group" conference.
- Honking Geese from southern Callahan State Forest
- Split-Filled versus split-wedged
- Rock pile near the parking lot at Walden Pond
- Boulders and wedges
- Driving around Carlisle with FFC
- Where arrowheads come from
- NEARA Fall Meeting in Boxborough
- Wolf Pits
- Ustû'tlï or the "foot" snake
- Dear Massachusetts Historical Commission
- Wall Bridge - Sturbridge, MA
- Revisiting an old post
- Acknowledging Rock Piles - Some thoughts from Jame...
- Indian Stone Heap
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4 comments :
Kind of: yuck!
The old stories are amazing; there's so many of them. One of them from Mooney talks about snakes hating the smell of human sweat, so the hunter sticks a hand under his armpit and then under the serpent's nose.
One personal Communication from my friend from the Cheyenne River res, (spiritual advisor to the two state recognised tribes along the Housatonic) when I asked him about the creature was that there still were really shy horned snakes living near the reservation that people sometimes saw...
Speaking about serpents, a museum colleague of mine, an archaeologist and expert in Mississippian mythology and religion, saw the "Wall-over-the-Stream" site in Rochester, VT, four or so years ago, and said it probably represented a water serpent. Other archaeologist who were with us when my friend said this, didn't know what to say, and of course they said nothing. I wrote a short web article about it, which you can access at http://rock-piles.com/R7-2.
Reminds me of those "underwater panthers" talked about by the mounds archaeologists in Ohio.
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