Sunday, March 30, 2025

Recent photos from Jim Wilson (PA)

  Mr. Jim Wilson writes (at a social media post):

    "8 of us rented an SUV last Friday for a road trip across Pike and Monroe counties to visit 7 constructed stone landscapes and get up close looks at the anomalous constructed stoneworks at each one. The majority of these features were cairns; some rather massive and flat topped and others smaller and conical, but all of them were carefully and beautifully built. And many of them were in wetlands. A linteled stone niche at one site and a low stone wall running for several hundred feet along the base of a bedrock outcrop were the other notable built stone features at some of these sites. The low constructed stone wall appears to accent the natural outcrop above it. Among we 8 travelers were Dr. Jannie Loubser, international archaeologist and rock art expert; and NEPA Archeology's own Danny Younger. A day of great conversations, info sharing and comraderie!"


There's Dr. Johnnie Rock Lobster and Norman Muller 
with some other guys...








The stones may have been chosen and then be stacked or laid to resemble scales around a rattlesnake eye:


And the image prompted this comment from an Ancient Origins editor: 












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1 comment :

pwax said...

Great photos! I am inclined to agree with Mr Lorichon. And Mr Williams is out of touch.