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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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Is is possible that these are just ordinary rocks, like the rest of the rocks.
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ReplyDeleteNo it is not possible. Your eyes can easily see they are clustered, positioned with respect to each other, forming the remnants of an outline. A probabilistic argument is possible but why bother? Use your eyes.
ReplyDeleteIt's a pretty cool-looking grouping, but I can't guess what answer you're looking for. Looks like an interesting landscape, from the curve of stones to the pair of matching boulders to the relationships among the boulders in the background.
ReplyDeleteIf I were to try to guess, I suppose this could be a prayer seat?
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ReplyDeleteHey anonymous: You are welcome to not visit again.
ReplyDeleteFor those who wish to follow the entire discussion, know that demonstrating rock piles existence versus random phenomena is quite possible but requires discussion of context and probabilities. Overall it is kind of a dull subject which proves nothing to the "anti-boobs" anyway and does little to encourage people who already can see what is there using their eyes. It is not easy math and I see no reason to pursue it.
It is great being an amateur, not having to anwer to anyone, being stung but not particularly slowed down by people like this "anoymous".
And by the way, I know your URL!
I was going to say, "Those are Stone Structures," but I won't, after seeing all the above comments...
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking pile-space-pile, if the smaller stones in front of the boulder to the right were stacked, but have fallen down. However, I've had pile-gap-pile on the brain lately (ever since that 'rock pile joined to cairn' which you pointed out to me was probably a pile-space-pile with the left cairn collapsed. I think you are right about that one).
ReplyDeleteI am seeing them too.
ReplyDeleteI was going to say a prayer seat that has mostly been disturbed with stones having been moved around, and with the boulder in back serving as a back support. Then I noticed what seems to be a thin, recumbent manitou stone highlighted and under the dead branch. What is it all about? I haven't the vaguest idea.
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some ceremonial space-- small enough from what it looks, for just one or two people.
ReplyDeleteThere's also the feminine implication of the stone pair.
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