Via Norman Muller:
http://twtimreck.com/features/
[Keep watching till the end, it gets surprising.]
Update: let me call attention to an article by Jim P. about the "Pachaug Hoax".
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Here, I think it belatedly dawns on Bellantoni that he has recommended the destruction of thousands of rock piles. And he has been dead wrong for his entire career. I wish we could see him turn green in the face and choke on his regrets a little more visibly.
On a separate note: it is really unfortunate there are "artifacts" inside rock piles in New England. Protecting them just got a whole lot harder. [I am not in favor of suppressing the information.]
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1915&dat=20010323&id=6hYhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lXQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2527%2C4893006&hl=en
I'm not sure if that link worked above worked well: it is from page 59 of "The Day" Newspaper from March 23, 2001: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=SrsqWtBqNIQC&dat=20010323&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
Hey Peter. I haven't checked in for a while but I know some background on this story about these "artifacts" from this rock shelter dig (from a person who shall remain un-named) and I would not believe any of this for a single minute. Run from this, and run fast.
As someone with a slight tendency towards paranoia and conspiracy theories, I wonder who benefits from this "hoax"? Offhand, I would say the conventional archeologist do. I do not see it as a good thing for "cairn enthusiasts".
700 artifacts? On State property? No documentation, no published paper, no permission, just a couple of guys kicking around the landscape removing artifacts and rummaging through stone piles. The law calls that looting where I live.
Its OK if you are an "archaeologist"
As someone who has studied rock piles in Pachaug State Forest for years (it is adjacent to Arcadia Mgmt Area near my hometown) -- I even strolled out there with Jim Egan many years ago who was representing NEARA at the time -- I can tell you what I learned out there. This area is thick with rock piles. It is also part of a wide and contiguous area of rock piles that reaches well into Rhode Island. I have never found an artifact in Pachaug - not in the hundreds of rock piles I have seen there. I don't doubt some artifacts exist out there but I am very skeptical of the claims made in the video. The only ancient artifacts I have ever found on a rock pile was on property adjacent to the Miner Farm and it included a small pile of projectile points sitting on top of the boulder where they were quarried and shaped. They were well encased in moss.
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