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.
“The
discoveries led some anthropologists to conclude that people from the
Adena and Hopewell cultures had migrated from the Ohio Valley to the
Chesapeake region, even though their burial mounds have never been found
in the area.”
I am so ambivalent about this article. On the one hand, it provides information about the Adena in the mid-Atlantic. On the other, it encourages/entices relic hunters to dig up burial sites. It reminds the general reader that the Americas were widely populated long before the Europeans, but it also makes their culture a collector's curiosity. Any sense that the Pig Point site was a special/sacred place in the natural world long ago is removed.
I am so ambivalent about this article. On the one hand, it provides information about the Adena in the mid-Atlantic. On the other, it encourages/entices relic hunters to dig up burial sites.
ReplyDeleteIt reminds the general reader that the Americas were widely populated long before the Europeans, but it also makes their culture a collector's curiosity. Any sense that the Pig Point site was a special/sacred place in the natural world long ago is removed.