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.
Pesky because the author, I think a professor in Rhode Island, knows very well that rock piles are a controversy in the making. Rhode Island, home of the Narragansett, is blessed with a State Archeologist who is sympathetic to rock pile studies and a State Beaurocracy which, otherwise, appears to be quite anti-Indian. I think by "pesky" he means trouble-making. And that is a fair characterization. I hope this blog is pesky in that way.
Some nice ones. How are they 'pesky,' I wonder.
ReplyDeletePesky because the author, I think a professor in Rhode Island, knows very well that rock piles are a controversy in the making. Rhode Island, home of the Narragansett, is blessed with a State Archeologist who is sympathetic to rock pile studies and a State Beaurocracy which, otherwise, appears to be quite anti-Indian. I think by "pesky" he means trouble-making. And that is a fair characterization. I hope this blog is pesky in that way.
ReplyDeleteAh. To be pesky in that sense is exactly why I was interested in contributing.
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