Stemmed Quartz Arrowhead - variations on a Wading River theme

 

Unusual carved rocks

This is so weird. I thought it my interest you, although not rock pile related:

Who Created These Mysterious Rock Carvings?

Lower Wildcat Wash - Moapa Nevada

I thought I already described this place but I cannot find any posts about it. Luckily I still have the photos. So here goes:

If you walk south from NV 168 along Wildcat Wash, leading in towards Arrow Canyon, you are following a well travelled path (note the prominent Yucca, left of center):

To either side, is a dense pavement of broken rock, bunt rock, and lithic debris. Here, someone broke apart a nice cream-colored block of chert, with pieces scattered around for several yards. Otherwise, they are still sitting where someone left them - too big to be moved around much by erosion.

And then, what-do-ya-know, you come across a rock pile. You think: this does not look very old. But then think: Yeah but those lithic fragments did not look too old either. So, who knows?

You notice a propped slab. This is more likely to be recent. This pair of Yuccas appear as a single plant in the earlier photo. The propped slab does not look like it could be very ancient. 

To the left, at the edge of the gully is another rock pile.

(You can still see the phone lines along NV 168 in the background.)

I wonder what someone might be up to out here. Perhaps I can ask the Moapa Indians.

Photos from Lake Luzerne NY

[Reader Kevin O. writes:] Here are a couple more pics.

One is my attempt at a primitive map of where stone piles have been located.

One pic is a profile of the location of three stone piles.   example of layout

One pic is a photo of Potash Mt...not a view from where we are.  We could have that view but chose 25 years ago not to cut any trees.  Mohawk name of Potash Mt is   Senongewok. The stones face west toward Potash Mountain

One photo is of Red Hawk.  Red Hawk was from Swanton Vt and I believe his mother was Abenki, and father, of European descent.  Not 100% sure. Definitely of Abeneki lineage

Red Hawk was an interpreter for Fort Ticonderoga, and the photo is from the State of NY

Concave Base Arrowhead from Marshfield

I found this in a place where I look and look and never find more than a smidgen of a broken quartz base. It is one of those late paleo "Snappit" or "Hardaway-Dalton" types that I tend to find inland. This is as close as I have come to finding an arrowhead in this place.

A single-shouldered quartz arrowhead

Wading River or Squibnocket.

Native Americans and the Revolution, Thursday, 12/5

[From the Friends of PineHawk]

Thank you for signing up for "Native Americans in Southern New England and the Revolution" with Daniel Mandell, this Thursday, Dec. 5, from 7-8:30 p.m. in Room 204 of Acton Town Hall, 472 Main St. The program is jointly sponsored by The Friends of Pine Hawk and the Acton 250 Committee.

Note: The program will not be live-streamed. It will be recorded and available later on Acton TV, https://actontv.org/.