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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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- 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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- Interesting Boulder-Covered Graves in Maine
- Split Wedged Rock
- Kentucky Stone Serpent
- Outcrop - Bolton, MA
- Short Stretches of Stone Wall in Boylston MA
- NEARA Spring Meeting
- Cairn reference in - The Rock-Art of Eastern Nort...
- More reflections on rock piles by Johannes Loubser
- Niches in Mind
- A note on building Rock Piles
- Being too judgemental
- Manitou Api
- "Rock Piles from a Comparative Perspective"
- More on Opacum Woods - Sturbridge MA
- Hole in a wall - Opacum Woods
- Wetland next to site at Warren Brook
- Warren Brook Watershed Conservation Land - Upton MA
- The Other Stone Taxonomy
- The Wachusett Tradition and Marker Piles
- Short Stretches of stone wall - Warren Brook Upton...
- A "V" arrangement
- More about Opacum Woods
- Propped Boulder - Sturbridge, MA
- Montville Rock Piles - recent use?
- Westford Boulders
- Crazy Walls - Sherborn MA
- The Wachusett Tradition
- Holliston Golf Course Stone Mound perspective
- Some interesting links
- A peculiar combination of rock piles
- In every swamp...
- Opacum Woods
- Detailed report on the Oxford Stone Mound
- Robert Buchanan writes:Last weekend I took a quick...
- Platform Mound at Miller Hill - Holliston, MA
- At the top of the traprock (basalt) quarry - Mille...
- Center part 2
- Miller Hill - Holliston, MA (Preamble and Overview)
- A visit to Dr. John Champlin Glacial Park, Westerl...
- Miller Hill Holliston, MA (preview)
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7 comments :
This provides an example of modern Native Americans knowing little about the rock piles in their own homeland. So, how long a time-span does their oral history cover? Not enough to remember the building of these piles.
Also, I am a little worried about where they got the rocks to make this turtle.
Peter, what are you talking about? These people are from Manitoba. Manitou Api is a well-known sacred site, with ancient petroforms. The First Nation depicted in the photograph even built a huge cultural center -- a wooden building called The Turtle Lodge -- in the shape of a turtle. These are people who own those petroforms. Their ancestors built them. I highly doubt they dismantled them -- but even if they did, isn't that their right?
Maybe I am wrong. I thought the Indians at Whiteshell said that they do not remember who originally made the rock piles.
Yeah, that's pretty much been the standard answer across the board for generations now.
There is evidence the New England Indians were (and are?) being deliberately deceptive. That does not seem to be true in Ontario.
Am I splitting hairs? The question is, which Indians still know something about the function of rock piles?
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