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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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Thank you for posting. When Europeans first entered Ohio there were over 50,000 mound complexes. I'm sure there were thousands or tens of thousands in Indiana, too. It is unbelievable to people in the rest of the world that so few of these monuments of America's indigenous past have been preserved.
ReplyDeleteHenges is the right word--it means a circular ditch and bank, with or without standing stones. When I lived by the Newark Earthworks there were some there and they reminded me of the huge one at Avebury in England. Sad that so many have been destroyed.
That said, I'm a little leery of the Nephilim thing. The idea that there used to be a white race who built the mounds and then were massacred by the Indians was for years used as an excuse for killing Indians wherever they were found, when in fact they were the true mound builders.
I was unaware of this Nephilim thing - I thought they might be a kind of angel, but I didn't look into what that meant...
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ReplyDeleteWell, I give you points for at least not asserting it was the Celts.
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