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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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- Rocks express a sentiment
- Uphill from the see-through niche
- Rock on boulder
- Old structures along an un-named tributary of Rock...
- Small Hillside site in Sterling with Tourmaline Gr...
- A twisted bush, Sterling
- A Symbolic Journey: Returing a Rock Stolen from a ...
- See-through niche
- Laurel Hill Walks
- More Turtle Visions
- The First Thanksgiving
- Finding what I was looking for in Harvard, MA
- Fort Mountain GA Stone ROW
- Split wedged rock
- The mystery of the mastodons gets a few big clues
- "Historic Truths and Reconciliation: Interpreting ...
- Norman Muller's Online article on Rock Piles
- A rock inscription from Yarmouth Nova Scotia
- Report on NEARA 2009 Fall Meeting
- “AN OLD INDIAN WALL FOUND"
- More Yoni and Lingam
- Rock pile of the day
- Cabell cairns pique archaeologist's interest
- Turtle Visions
- Uktena turns out to be a constellation
- Yoni and Lingam
- NEARA meeting starts today
- Inside the Riparian Zone
- Squiggles
- Coming up...
- Split boulder from Montville CT
- Like the shadows in the stream
- Bright November Morning in Leominser State Forest
- Moose Video - Leominster State Forest
- Another snippet from Maine
- St. Aspinquid Rock Pile moved atop Mount A in York
- South of Camp Virginia...
- Another Familiar Place Post (or two)
- Portraits
- Cisco Ad with Stone Tools
- Wisconsin Boulder Mound Site
- Stow Grid
- NEARA Fall Meeting in Boxborough MA - Nov 13-15, 2009
- Two Walls and a Spring
- "A walk in the woods" - by James Gage
- A niche built into a wall with other anomalies
- More street signs
- Ohio Wesleyan art professor uncovers celestial con...
- Barbour Brook, NY revisited
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2 comments :
I meant to mention to new West VA visitors that these piles are common in New England and throughout the south. They also appear to be common wherever Algonquian speaking Indians lived in the past - including California and some mountain states. Your state archeologist is suprisingly unaware of this. Also there have been numerous advances in the study of Native American astronomy - information that may be necessary for understanding these cairns.
To the best of my knowledge the W. Va. state Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) which includes the office of the state archaeologist has taken a neutral position on the issue of Native American stone structures. W.Va. SHPO was involved with the Native American cairn & stone wall site we consulted on for the state park service. so, they are fully aware of the existence of these structures. Interesting enough, the official SHPO site form actually lists stone mounds under the heading of Native American prehistoric sites. http://www.wvculture.org/shpo/siteform.pdf The wvculture.org website contains several articles attributing the stone walls at Mount Carbon to the Native Americans.
James Gage
www.StoneStructures.org
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