Monday, October 05, 2015

Pachaug Rock Shelter - Ted Timreck video

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". 

8 comments :

pwax said...

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.]

Tim MacSweeney said...

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1915&dat=20010323&id=6hYhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lXQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2527%2C4893006&hl=en

Tim MacSweeney said...

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

Bruce said...

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.

pwax said...

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".

Tommy Hudson said...

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.

pwax said...

Its OK if you are an "archaeologist"

JimP said...

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.