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.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Simple Hypothesis Testing
Over 8 feet tall in some places, which is a better hypothesis about this pile: that this was dumped from a cart or that it was carefully built by someone?Update: I could see someone coming up with an excuse/explanation of the flat wall. But not the extra corners. Update 2: covering perhaps 100 square yards (10x10) I cannot see that it would even be possible to dump rocks from a cart at the center of this pile. So, if anyone wants to defend the "field clearing" hypothesis, send 'em over here to address this example.
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That's a work of beauty!
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