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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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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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- Is it a bird?
- "Traces In the Woods"
- Archaeological assessment of the stone mound/wall ...
- A mound hunting experiment
- New large mounds with hollows - northern Fitchburg
- Flowering Mountain Laurel
- Stumbling onto more mounds
- Giants on the Landscape
- Quartz projectile points - southeastern MA
- Shaman Whalers of Ancient Kodiak Island
- Demonstrating Design - old stone tool exercise
- "Ultimate Conference on the Ancient Mysteries"
- Seen in Northern Fitchburg
- A recently damaged rock pile
- Flatrock Hill, Dunstable MA - a hill too far
- Dunbarton NH Site
- Quartz on Rock
- One thing leads to another
- Peekaboo - deer in Upton
- Very old rock piles
- Edge of the Powerlines
- Rock Piles in the Pines
- Mystery Plant - Upton State Forest
- Revisiting Punkatasset
- Aran Isle Stone walls - and the Princess Beatrice ...
- preview: Punkatasset Hill, Concord MA
- Another Found (Beaked) Turtle Head (or 2)
- Small stemmed "small" point from Eastern MA
- Hound Meadow Hill - Dunstable MA
- Hound Meadow Hill - appetizer
- Un-roofed chambers? - Comparing three structures
- Treasure Hunters University Turtle Page
- Spotting a fox before he spots me
- McGregor Ln - Sherborne MA
- Yellow Iris
- Paul Hill - Sherborne MA (Part 2 )
- Coastal Discoveries.com
- Non-Spanish Turtles at Rock Piles
- Mongolian Stone Turtles
- A Dunstable Machu Pichu
- Teaser
- Rock piles in Georgia
- Roadside Attractions - Bush Hill Rd, Pelham NH
- Obnoxius cairn building
- Paul Hill Part 1 - Sherborn, MA
- Luna Moth
- The Rather Testudinate “Indian Rock” in Bristol CT
- Also seen on the way to Church Rock
- Back to Church Rock
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6 comments :
I'd say this group is confused. They had a meeting in May in Glastonbury, England, and now, the October, they are meeting in Glastonbury, CT. A blurb says the purpose of the conference is "to explore the megalithic chambers, dolmens, and legends of tribes of Giants that prevail in the landscape of New England." Huh? Giants? What in Heaven's name do these Brits know what we have in New England, and particularly around Glastonbury? To me, it's all a bunch of BS.
That's why I said it is an eye roller. Still, I love crazy stuff and find it all wildly entertaining, exactly because it's so unbelievable.
My problem is that I'm too serious about rock art (or rock architecture) and want to understand who built these structures and when. Were I not so serious about this, then I could probably appreciate this mega-nonsense for what it is. But to me, it just muddies the waters and drags us back to the period when there were abundant crazy ideas of who constructed the "megalithic" chambers, and archaeologists considered all of us crackpots.
It is unfortunate that UFO websites are a lot more popular than websites about reality. This seems to be true over a wide variety of topic areas.
The first CT giant that comes to my mind:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Giant_(Connecticut)
In my experience visiting old stone structures, land owners who thought features on their property were built by Celts or Vikings were more respectful to the structures than those who attributed the features to Native Americans, and that is a shame.
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