I followed some of JimP's wise advice and you can enlarge these photos.Thanks Jim!!
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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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Looks good, Tim.
ReplyDeleteHistorically, rock shelters, caves, caverns, clefts, holes, or huge splits in bedrock or outcroppings had a connection to the healing spirit Hobbamock or Cheepi of the Underworld. There are several primary source accounts from all over the Eastern Woodlands of ceremonies occurring at such places, and offerings either thrown or placed inside the hole/split/cleft/cave/shelter.
The accounts also talk of these places having connections to a serpent, which certainly makes sense as these places were once likely rattlesnake dens -- and also according to primary sources, the healing spirit most often appeared as a snake, and was most familiar to Pnieses, whose very emblem was the snake.
Here's something I just found on Picasa Web. Click here for the link. At first I glance I was wondering why the rocks were under the overhang, instead of at the drip edge, but then I remembered your post! Thanks!!
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