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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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There are only so many ways one can flake stone. It is not surprising that groups should have hit upon similar methods. I once found a tool at a Massachusetts site that strongly resembled an Oldowan tool - but this did not lead me to conclude that Australopithecines were present! The same applies to the conjecture that outre-pas flaking such as is found on Paleo-Indian tools and Solutrean tools in Spain and France necessarily imply a transatlantic relationship between the two cultures.
ReplyDeleteYes true, but the technology sophistication compared to oldowan is significant. Mutual parallel development get's harder to justify when the technology is so complex.
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