Mounds from Spring Creek, PA

Reader Jon sends new pictures:

Here are some photos I wanted to share with you. Rock Pile A  is images 1002, 1008 and (1009 from 2016). Rock Pile B, 100 yards away is image 1004.

The 2,300 Y.O. Stone Pyramid Mound & Fort | Glenford Fort Preserve

Note the dating of some stone mounds in Ohio, consistent with Oley Hills dates:

The 2,300 Y.O. Stone Pyramid Mound & Fort | Glenford Fort Preserve | - YouTube

Some images from Jim Wilson’s Zoom Presentation

 

"Learn what history, science and Native Americans have to say about ambiguous stoneworks found throughout the Northeast Woodlands—including here in the Lehigh Valley—and how public and private organizations are coming together to document, preserve and protect them..."

Watch: https://fb.watch/6fxQG6CmSB/

Underwater archaeology team finds ancient obsidian flakes 2,000 miles from quarry

 

“An underwater archaeologist from The University of Texas at Arlington is part of a research team studying 9,000-year-old stone tool artifacts discovered in Lake Huron that originated from an obsidian quarry more than 2,000 miles away in central Oregon.

The obsidian flakes from the underwater archaeological site represent the oldest and farthest east confirmed specimens of western obsidian ever found in the continental United States.

 “In this case, these tiny obsidian artifacts reveal social connections across North America 9,000 years ago,” said Ashley Lemke, assistant professor of sociology and anthropology at UT Arlington. “The artifacts found below the Great Lakes come from a geological source in Oregon, 4,000 kilometers away—making it one of the longest distances recorded for obsidian artifacts anywhere in the world.”

The find in Lake Huron is part of a broader study to understand the social and economic organization of caribou hunters at the end of the last ice age. Water levels were much lower then; scientists have found, for example, ancient sites like stone walls and hunting blinds that are now 100 feet underwater.

“This particular find is really exciting because it shows how important underwater archaeology is,” Lemke said. “The preservation of ancient underwater sites is unparalleled on land, and these places have given us a great opportunity to learn more about past peoples.”

https://www.uta.edu/news/news-releases/2021/06/15/lemke-lake-huron

Citation: O’Shea JM, Lemke AK, Nash BS, Sonnenburg EP, Ferguson JR, Nyers AJ, et al. (2021) Central Oregon obsidian from a submerged early Holocene archaeological site beneath Lake Huron. PLoS ONE 16(5): e0250840.

 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250840

 

Falmouth area arrowheads - ID requested

 Can any one identify the arrowheads here:

I am particularly interested in this one, which looks like a late stage "paleo" point:

Note the base is "thinned" compared to the upper part.

Wow. Wish I found it.

Update: Apparently I am wrong, it is a Middle Woodland "Fox Creek" point. Thank you to Curt Hoffman for the IDs.

Another "Chamber" Video

The "Rattlesnake Squamation/Scalation" Variation

   I just watched this video from Mike Luoma of VT yesterday. We've been communicating electronically on FaceBook and I sent him this image below soon after viewing it: 

A captured still from:

https://youtu.be/ERM919YDsTo

Wolf Den?? (NE CT)

I meant to post this video soon after I first saw it:

 New England Ceremonial Stone Landscapes - Stone Chamber - Northeastern Connecticut - 2001 120 views•Feb 20, 2021

Oley Hill on YouTube

 Big Mystery ~ Stone Ruins Of E. Pennsylvania - YouTube

"Horned Creatures"

 A Horned Creature from 2008, and some H.R. Schoolcraft illustrations from the late 1800s: 

https://rockpiles.blogspot.com/2008/04/horned-creature-and-other-possible.html

http://rockpiles.blogspot.com/2008/04/horned-creature-effigy.html

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100576185

Some Horns from James Mooney too:

Clovis First Dies (AGAIN!)

New evidence may change timeline for when people first arrived in North America (phys.org)

[Research from 20 or so years ago at Monte Verde in Chile already changed that "timeline". Seems like the only people still promoting a 13K time depth for man in America are textbook writers and YouTube.]