I wrote a web article about the Stockbridge cairn site, which you can access here:
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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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Exceptional work Norman.
ReplyDeleteTo show that not all archaeologists think alike, I received this comment from Dr. Charles Faulkner, professor emeritus of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, who dug at the Old Stone Fort in TN:
ReplyDelete"The cairns with a quartz 'eye' and tail could be the Northeast representation of the Uktena, a mythical Cherokee creature with horns, tail, and in one version a crystal eye in the middle of its forehead. The 'water panther' is a Midwest version. Association with natural features is also interesting; the Old Stone Fort sits above two big waterfalls in the Duck River. Glyph caves in our area appears to be often associated with underground streams and springs."
Norman
Norman, I have some references for you that show similarities in the use of quartz in the Northeast to that of the Cherokee Ulûñsû'tï, which is the transparent, "diamond," or presumably quartz crystal on the Uktena's forehead. Let me know if you're interested in getting that deep.
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ReplyDeleteYes, please send me this info. You have my e-mail address.
Norman
I've always thought it significant for the placement of the Oley Hills site that it is just at a big watershed divide. In its immediate area, one stream begins that ultimately flows to the Schuylkill and another begins that will ultimately reach the Delaware.
ReplyDeleteWe've got sites at major headwaters in Rhode Island too. The Queen's Cairns site is at the headwaters of the most pristine river left in Southern New England. Another stone structure site sits at Wickaboxet, yet another headwater for a major waterway. The Rockville site sits in a break-out zone that feeds all the bodies of water that surround that immense area -- an area of dozens of square miles.
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