From Teig Tyrson:
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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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What are people's interpretations of ceremoniously placing these tools in the cracks of the stone wall? (were they placed up-right, like an effigy of some sort?)
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-Matt H.
What are people's interpretations of ceremoniously placing these tools in the cracks of the stone wall? (were they placed up-right, like an effigy of some sort?)
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-Matt H.
Peter Waksman found what looked like a small plummet in a wall near or in Concord, MA; and I was with a group in Rochester, VT, when a member found a slate gorget resting on a stone in a large cairn or mound. Such discoveries are important. Do we know where the projectile points were found specifically?
ReplyDeleteThat is very interesting about the slate gorget.
ReplyDeleteI cannot imagine seeing such an item and not collecting it. But you know...
The plummet was found by someone else in the stones of a small "chamber" I found in Lincoln. I have forgotten whether or not we put it back after taking pictures.
ReplyDeleteVery interesting! I wonder why those tools were specifically placed in those spots, in niches in walls & chambers, etc. There had to have been some kind of ceremonial significance.
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How about these toward the end of http://wakinguponturtleisland.blogspot.com/2014/07/walking-along-some-walls-in-westbrook-ct.html? A possible shaft abrader or two, a grinding slick along a row of stones?
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