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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
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- Gates Lane - Stow
- Snake Effigy (Fences, Fishing and Chemical Warfare...
- Quartz from a wall
- Western Parker Hill, Fitchburg
- Nolumbeka Project Schedules
- A blog from southern NH, with rock piles
- So if they are nomadic, the rocks wouldn't have be...
- From Lexington/Arlington - more Whipple Hill
- A good "spot" - roadside attraction in Acton
- At Nashoba
- This is NOT a ceremonial rock pile
- Back of Ballard Hill - Lancaster
- Map of sites on Bare Hill/Oak Hill - Littleton, Ha...
- A large old mound in Harvard, above the headwaters...
- Menunketesuck Stone Wall (Westbrook CT)
- Madison CT
- First Bluebird
- Hopkinton, NEARA, and concerned neighbors protect ...
- I have been sick and not getting out. Here is some...
- The Ring (Ontario CA)
- Clearing Up That Stone Pile
- Polish Archeologists become sensitized to stone mo...
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4 comments :
Pictures of wide stone walls with hollows remind me of some of the "ravine culture" burials I was writing about here:
http://rockpiles.blogspot.com/search?q=Ravine
There are 3 seasonal brooks that originate on this site, or near it. A 4th brook, Hartshorn brook (big enough to get a proper name on our maps) runs through the valley directly to the east of this wall. The top-most rock pile would have had a fabulous view of the lowlands of what we now know as Amherst, and points east. Water and/or steep hills are definitely connected to all of the sites I'm finding. Ravine culture is a good name!
At the "private" Face Book group called "Waking Up on Turtle Island," where I posted a link to Anna's blog post, a rock art expert interested in Rock (or Stone) Piles, commented that: "The oval-shaped piles (shown in the first three photos), comprising roughly equal-sized river cobbles, very likely contain funerary remains in the center." I am awaiting a reply as to why he said that...
And that reply is: "The shape and edges of the cleared one are very regular and even. Yes, the pile could consist of tossed stones, but they were tossed with great precision. In the Ocmulgee area of central GA, rock piles looking like this one do contain funerary remains. However, being in a different area it is possible that the one in your photo could be modern. Only remote-sensing and/or excavation might reveal the content and antiquity (soil profile and date) of the pile."
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