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.
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Indian Pictorgraphs including rock piles
Tim MacSweeney found this page of pictographs on page 78 of a book by Garrick Mallery. In the middle of the fifth row, just below the center, is a picture of a rock pile with the words "Many cashe [cache] heap".
We need to keep in mind that rock pile ceremonialism was probably not universal within an Indian group. At least with the Aquinna (Martha's Vineyard Wampunoag) only certain families would have knowledge of certain aspects of ceremony and of the sacred.
We need to keep in mind that rock pile ceremonialism was probably not universal within an Indian group. At least with the Aquinna (Martha's Vineyard Wampunoag) only certain families would have knowledge of certain aspects of ceremony and of the sacred.
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