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.
Saturday, February 04, 2006
Pile-Space-Pile
In the previous post I showed you a divided pile. I think it is a refinement of something that was very common at the site I visited today: A large pile separated by a space from a small pile. I saw this so often today I think it deserves a name like pile-space-pile. Here are some other examples: In this last picture, there are five piles visible. Bruce, with a brown jacket, is standing behind the most distant one. In the mid-ground id a small pile, a space, and a larger pile built on an outcrop.
Here is another beautiful example. These piles are stacked up with at least one clear vertical face. There is a definate sense of viewing through the space - although I am not sure of it. In addition, several of these piles have aperatures.
No they don't have aperatures, they are mixed in with piles having apertures. The sense you get is of "foresights" sometines near, sometimes far.
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