In England (not rock pile related)
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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.
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Unfortunately, even if we had such, "local custom," laws in this country, Americans are so generally oblivious to what's in their surrounding woodlands that I doubt we'd see that kind of out-pouring of support. It is a very nice thought, though.
ReplyDeleteIncidentally, the story reminded me of one of my favorite movies entitled Photographing Fairies. Catch it if you ever have the chance.
And, while I am not a starry-eyed wishful dreamer who believes in fairies, I do think that one day people will recognize that there are very real forces for which fairies are a sort of analogy, forces most Western people are not able to be cognizant of because we do not use our brains the way some other cultures do. I don't see this so much as superstition as sensitivity to the real but invisible-to-most-of-us spirit world.
ReplyDeleteI also think that most people have experienced it, especially in childhood, but that we don't have the training to realize it . . . For example, I think that childhood experience is what fires people to be interested in things like mysterious stonework on the landscape. We're looking under stones for something essential we lost as we grew up in this culture.
Don't mind me.