[Not rock pile related, this is about an artifact found in a context dated to more than 19,000 years ago.]
"What’s more, chemical analysis carried out last year on a European-style stone knife found in Virginia back in 1971 revealed that it was made of French-originating flint. "
[Click here for the article from the Independent newspaper in the UK]
[Click here for the a Washington Post update]
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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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ReplyDeleteThat article has over 600 comments. Quite a lively debate! I'm afraid I don't know what aggregated means.
ReplyDeleteTwo extremely large website/forums decided to borrow my headline and send users to this article. So "Rock Piles" is being aggregated with other content by other websites, skirting the edges of "fair use" copyright laws. On balance, it is probably better to have more people visit a sub-page than not visit at all.
ReplyDeleteParenthetically, French flint might have been used as ballast on a ship that dumped it, here in the New World.
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