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.
Saturday, July 04, 2015
Summer blog slowdown
Weekends, I'll be headed for the beach not the hills.
Headed to the shore today myself - and lately thinking about possible clam gardens in the NE (http://wakinguponturtleisland.blogspot.com/2015/06/obeds-hammock-and-clam-gardens.html) - I came across this "Curious Monuments of the Simplest Kind: Shell Midden Archaeology in Massachusetts" http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1066&context=dissertations_2
I had just found something else describing circular or U-shaped middens, possibly a clue to a clam garden, shells instead of stones: http://deweesislandblog.com/2011/01/20/more-about-shell-middens-archives-talk-saturday/#sthash.K8W1jgec.hia7JJZb.dpbs
Interesting comments in that dissertation ("Curious Monuments of the Simplest Kind") , from page 31 to the end of the chapter. Worth having a link to it.
I found I couldn't just "cut and paste" from that Curious Paper, to take notes or create a post the "easy way." But it's very interesting with it's analogies to stone piles and structures - and also mentions Curt Hoffman.
Headed to the shore today myself - and lately thinking about possible clam gardens in the NE (http://wakinguponturtleisland.blogspot.com/2015/06/obeds-hammock-and-clam-gardens.html)
ReplyDelete- I came across this "Curious Monuments of the Simplest Kind: Shell
Midden Archaeology in Massachusetts" http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1066&context=dissertations_2
I had just found something else describing circular or U-shaped middens, possibly a clue to a clam garden, shells instead of stones: http://deweesislandblog.com/2011/01/20/more-about-shell-middens-archives-talk-saturday/#sthash.K8W1jgec.hia7JJZb.dpbs
Footnote #5 (curious monuments pdf) mentions stones on a boulder, potential ceremonial stone landscape (page 31).
ReplyDeleteInteresting comments in that dissertation ("Curious Monuments of the Simplest Kind") , from page 31 to the end of the chapter. Worth having a link to it.
ReplyDeleteI found I couldn't just "cut and paste" from that Curious Paper, to take notes or create a post the "easy way." But it's very interesting with it's analogies to stone piles and structures - and also mentions Curt Hoffman.
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