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.
Friday, May 25, 2012
Stone tool from Mt Madison NH
I found this some time ago on the airline trail a few hundred yards downhill from the Madison Springs AMC hut. Other views:This shows a very classic patter of flaking, executed in a crude material. There is a big difference in the wear of this side of the tip, versus the picture after next: I am not holding it funny - that side is rounded off and relatively smooth. So you tell me: who was doing what up there? Recall this from the pass between Adams and Madison.
Cool tool. I suspect this would have been hafted and used as a hoe.
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