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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.
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I'm surprised that a picture wasn't included in the article.
Go here to see it.
http://ncmuseumofhistory.org/workshops/indian/jud.jpg
Where are the petroglyphs in New England?
Check out: Could Entopics Explain Judaculla Rock? at Ruminations from the Distant Hills
There are very few petroglyphs in New England. Most of them do not seem quite legit, to this old pair of eyes. The most compelling are little amulets. Pictures on large rocks are rare. Deighton Rock comes to mind....but that was at the edge of a wide sea.
See the two books by Ed Lenik for rock art in New England
Somebody gave me a photo of some in Oxford CT, faces on a rock where a spring is. They look much like Bellows Falls faces - I'll check my boxes of photos. There are some in Branford near the shore - I'll look up the thing about it in the CT walk book about trails in CT...
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