A reader writes in with information on a new blog - with rock piles in Philadelphia (I'll be adding the link to the list on the right):
Hi, just wanted to let you know about my blog. I've been examining a forested portion of Philadelphia's Fairmount park (the largest city forest in the world) which was put off limits to development in the mid 1800s. The wissahickon valley (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wissahickon_Creek) is boulder rich (And rich in old millworks) and was purportedly a sacred location for the local Lenape. This makes finding a lot difficult, but there are still quite a few interesting features (stone rows, propped boulderes, a handful of standing stones, split wedged boulders).Anyhow, feel free to drop by my blog, Lithic Roxborough, at http://lithic-roxborough.blogspot.com/
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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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Hmm...remind me not to compose emails after midnight anymore.
ReplyDeleteI'm Corey Hart, the proprietor of Lithic Roxborough. "This makes finding a lot difficult" should read "The urban setting makes finding a lot difficult".
In any event, thanks for the publicity.
Beware Corey,
ReplyDeleteThe old guards of the Rock Pile page are a very tricky bunch; they are masters of disaster and purveyors of self indulgent grandiosity. Beware, beware, and beware.
It is difficult to identify features in urban settings, but not impossible. One must remember that these sites were, at first, mostly understood only by secret societies among the Indians themselves, usually in remote locations, skirted by Indians guides with Europeans, avoided by superstitious Christians, scorned by decades of animosity and paranoia caused by the Indian wars, until eventually becoming privately owned undeveloped land, and often donated to municipalities during the nature park movement of the 19th century.
ReplyDeleteSo it actually makes sense to find a site at a place like Fairmount Park.
So you are still there eh?
ReplyDelete"The old guards of the Rock Pile page are a very tricky bunch; they are masters of disaster and purveyors of self indulgent grandiosity."
ReplyDeleteI've come home.