tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post7681443443757222204..comments2024-03-28T19:28:10.100-04:00Comments on <b>Rock Piles</b>: Final Schematicpwaxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16647940752050937588noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-82435217505009463802017-03-03T16:44:13.230-05:002017-03-03T16:44:13.230-05:00I gotta say, reading this in 2017, that we should ...I gotta say, reading this in 2017, that we should have continued this conversation. Because I think we actually have enough info in our heads to figure out if some places are or are not relatively concentrated with sites and were or were not more "aggressively" farmed. <br /> pwaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16647940752050937588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-49347065218455495652014-06-12T15:29:13.527-04:002014-06-12T15:29:13.527-04:00In the case of the Adirondacks, the histories will...In the case of the Adirondacks, the histories will show that they were much LESS aggressively farmed than most nice level stone-free areas! But so was Putnam County, and it is absolutely chock full of stone constructions. A mystery!Curt Hoffmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02409822723614523110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-17191020953266047512014-05-27T20:34:43.177-04:002014-05-27T20:34:43.177-04:00Another possibility is that those areas are much m...Another possibility is that those areas are much more aggressively farmed than in New England - which reflects a real difference in the places' histories.pwaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16647940752050937588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-54433238079154889442014-05-27T15:50:56.180-04:002014-05-27T15:50:56.180-04:00It does bring up an interesting question of "...It does bring up an interesting question of "who and when." And "Where else?" Only the Curious Have Something to Find, my grandfather always used to say...Tim MacSweeneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15517237193572593390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-64206490198334573932014-05-26T13:45:01.195-04:002014-05-26T13:45:01.195-04:00Why, then, are there so many sites noted in the Gr...Why, then, are there so many sites noted in the Green Mountains and the Catskills? Or, for that matter, in the mountains of Virginia, Georgia, and South Carolina? In Iroquois folklore the Adirondacks were considered the abode of Tawiskaron, the dark god, and were avoided. Perhaps this is the reason?Curt Hoffmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02409822723614523110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-41860383839888857192014-05-26T11:50:16.222-04:002014-05-26T11:50:16.222-04:00I agree with Peter: few people have bothered to lo...I agree with Peter: few people have bothered to look for stone constructions in the mountainous regions of the Northeast, which accounts for the lack of sites reported.<br />Normanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10560996385875773347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-22598882109956629282014-05-26T10:27:54.194-04:002014-05-26T10:27:54.194-04:00I would like to have a look in the woods at those ...I would like to have a look in the woods at those places like the Adirondacks. Maybe no one is looking hard in those places.pwaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16647940752050937588noreply@blogger.com