tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post7867027788981238802..comments2024-03-28T19:28:10.100-04:00Comments on <b>Rock Piles</b>: Petroforms, Trade Routes and Proto-Algonquianpwaxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16647940752050937588noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-38684540941187231142010-03-03T07:34:36.838-05:002010-03-03T07:34:36.838-05:00We could probably have a contest to see who can fi...We could probably have a contest to see who can find the most definitions of the word petroform. The language link is interesting to me, supporting the tradition that DID survive among the Ashinabe that they came from the east coast, the salt water. Could that also suggest that the stone building travelled, like the language, to there rather than originating from there???? That might mean there Tim MacSweeneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15517237193572593390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-50867396197583956622010-03-02T16:45:41.035-05:002010-03-02T16:45:41.035-05:00And a key question for me is who wrote the entry o...And a key question for me is who wrote the entry on petroforms for Wikipedia? From my conversations with Jack Steinbring and Herman Bender, petroforms are boulder outlines on the ground. Period. I'm not sure who added the other stuff, but it actually distorts the meaning.Normanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10560996385875773347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-51090034829862270772010-03-02T15:28:35.254-05:002010-03-02T15:28:35.254-05:00I think what we are talking about here might be so...I think what we are talking about here might be somewhat akin to asking a modern-day Scandinavian about the pre-Christian religious customs of the Vikings. I believe that at least some rock pile sites are quite old and it seems the oral history does not go back that far on this subject. Looking at the archaeological record, it is clear that indigenous populations changed over time and that Chris Pittmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16471037186411393740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-20558249212805098522010-03-02T13:26:35.586-05:002010-03-02T13:26:35.586-05:00A key question for me, someone outside the Indian ...A key question for me, someone outside the Indian community, is what the Indians know about rock piles. I brought this up earlier. So in this article, Tim, you are shifting from "indigenous people" to "Ojibwe" and I am not clear if you are suggesting the Ojibwe DO know about rock piles. Such an important idea needs to be more explicity, if that is what is intended. Do the pwaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16647940752050937588noreply@blogger.com