tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post3899429398300087768..comments2024-03-28T19:28:10.100-04:00Comments on <b>Rock Piles</b>: Burial grounds pose mounds of trouble to developers - the latest Nipsachuk newspwaxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16647940752050937588noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-27602605095066629212007-08-22T07:30:00.000-04:002007-08-22T07:30:00.000-04:00Anybody farming that land would have died of stava...Anybody farming that land would have died of stavation, or died while trying to plow the land.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-76472476615972643082007-08-13T09:48:00.000-04:002007-08-13T09:48:00.000-04:00There were several reasons they (the experts) beli...There were several reasons they (the experts) believe the piles are not field clearing piles including:<BR/><BR/> -Piles are located on steep, gravel eskers. "Not farmable even with today's technology"<BR/><BR/> -Stones on top of the piles including quartz and beach cobbles are not native to the area symbolizing "an offering".<BR/><BR/>TimTim M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02240237101289448948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-67767925125689894132007-08-11T09:17:00.000-04:002007-08-11T09:17:00.000-04:00It never ceases to amaze me that someone like Wm. ...It never ceases to amaze me that someone like Wm. Simmons, whose book on New England Indians is one of the classics of American Indian studies, could make such an ignorant statment about the cairns being part of field clearing, when the process of colonial field clearing is well known. But supposedly intelligent people have been making ignorant statements about cairns and other Indian stone Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-82165180175339788072007-08-11T08:17:00.000-04:002007-08-11T08:17:00.000-04:00Note how the idea of burials went from speculation...Note how the idea of burials went from speculation to fact without any intervening information.pwaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16647940752050937588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-70725945233728259182007-08-11T06:59:00.000-04:002007-08-11T06:59:00.000-04:00Thank you for posting this.Thank you for posting this.Geophilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17206319191769614929noreply@blogger.com