Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Mysterious Stone Structures of the Eastern Forest

"Thousands of mysterious stone cairns are scattered throughout the Eastern United States. The stone monuments have been documented since the 1600s both by Native Americans and European settlers, but no one has any idea who built them." Words, music, and photography by Sequoyah Kennedy

https://youtu.be/T3ieQOVjzf0

Crude stone tools?

From reader Kevin, in Walpole MA. Please give opinions in the comments:






Thursday, June 11, 2020

Washed Up Artifacts (Westbrook & Madison CT)


"Evan Honeyman of Farmington found a verified Native American arrowhead or spear point on Quotonset Beach in Westbrook recently...experts placed the artifact at between 2,000 and 3,000 years old, and possibly composed of basalt, rhyolite or mudstone..."

https://www.nhregister.com/middletown/article/1-000-year-old-artifact-washes-up-on-Connecticut-15309055.php#item-85307-tbla-4

Also: Madison man finds ancient 'mysterious' stone at Hammonasset:

(State Archaeologist Sarah) Sportman  confirmed, via email, that this was indeed “a very cool find.”
“Several ground stone or pecked stone spheres have been found in Connecticut, but they are a mysterious artifact type that is found all over the world and from different time periods,” she wrote..."