I guess I'll have to go to Cockaponset State Forest and see if I can find these stones on boulders etc.
Or the "5th century Greek church in Connecticut."
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Monday, May 19, 2014
Rock Pile "Medallion"
Snake Butte Turtle Effigy
from: Historical group planning renovation for turtle effigy site -April 18, 2014. http://www.capjournal.com/news/historical-group-planning-renovation-for-turtle-effigy-site/article_0f49aea4-c6d0-11e3-be2a-0019bb2963f4.html
The outline of the stone serpent on Snake Butte was made clearer with a dusting of flour for this photo taken by the South Dakota Archaeological Society.
http://southdakotamagazine.com/mystery-mosaics
Sunday, May 18, 2014
The Science of Recognizing Indigenous Stonework; Observations
“Inductive Reasoning is sometimes called
the "from the bottom up" approach. When we use inductive reasoning,
our specific observations and measurements may begin to show us a general
pattern. This might allow us to formulate a tentative hypothesis that can be
further explored, and we might finally end up making some general conclusions.”
- Platt, J. R., 1964, Strong inference. Science 146: 347-353.
http://wakinguponturtleisland.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-science-of-recognizing-indigenous.html
Nolumbeka Calendar
Within the next week the Annual Commemoration of the Infamous Great Falls Massacre and a historic vote by the Greenfield Town Council will take place. Our efforts to protect the Ancestors at White Ash Swamp hang in the balance.
This is a unique opportunity to make an important choice. We can either turn our backs on the tragic history and current reality of the encounter between our region's Native Americans and the Europeans who colonized the area -- or take action. Please support the Nolumbeka Project in our efforts to heal the wounds of our shared past and move into a future that respects the rich cultural and spiritual legacy of New England's First Peoples.
It's time.
Join us on Sunday, May 18 at the Great Falls Discovery Center, Turners Falls, 11-3 PM for the Annual Commemoration and support our efforts to pass the Native American Burial Ordinance at the Greenfield Town Council Vote on Wednesday, May 21, 7 PM, GCTV Studios, 393 Main Street, Greenfield.
We encourage you to call or write the members of the Greenfield Town Council and attend the May 21 meeting to show your support.
For more information on each of these events and a contact list for the members of the Greenfield Town Council please visit our website:
www.nolumbekaproject.org
This is a unique opportunity to make an important choice. We can either turn our backs on the tragic history and current reality of the encounter between our region's Native Americans and the Europeans who colonized the area -- or take action. Please support the Nolumbeka Project in our efforts to heal the wounds of our shared past and move into a future that respects the rich cultural and spiritual legacy of New England's First Peoples.
It's time.
Join us on Sunday, May 18 at the Great Falls Discovery Center, Turners Falls, 11-3 PM for the Annual Commemoration and support our efforts to pass the Native American Burial Ordinance at the Greenfield Town Council Vote on Wednesday, May 21, 7 PM, GCTV Studios, 393 Main Street, Greenfield.
We encourage you to call or write the members of the Greenfield Town Council and attend the May 21 meeting to show your support.
For more information on each of these events and a contact list for the members of the Greenfield Town Council please visit our website:
www.nolumbekaproject.org
Saturday, May 17, 2014
Heartbreaker
I feel like it has been a good while now since I have found anything really nice. I'm in kind of a slump.
Last week I didn't find a single thing; not for lack of trying, though.
Two weeks ago I was out in the hot sun on a cloudless day. I looked for hours but came up with nothing in any of the spots I visited. With time running out I checked one last place but there were footprints everywhere, I assume from other arrowhead hunters. I went down to an area with less footprints, a low spot. I spotted this from far away. Easy to find.
I could see that it was broken. I usually find only small quartz arrowheads in this place, this was a real surprise.
Ugh... The break is patinated, this broke in ancient times. Probably I will never be lucky enough to find a whole one like this.
I took this picture to give a sense of what this thing was and how much is missing. I still value this find a lot but have a hard time getting past that sense of "If only..."
The material is a type of argillite or something like it, I think. I don't know this shape.
Last week I didn't find a single thing; not for lack of trying, though.
Two weeks ago I was out in the hot sun on a cloudless day. I looked for hours but came up with nothing in any of the spots I visited. With time running out I checked one last place but there were footprints everywhere, I assume from other arrowhead hunters. I went down to an area with less footprints, a low spot. I spotted this from far away. Easy to find.
"Early Americans" - someone who knows a little about the big picture
Found an intelligent comment in Yahoo News here from a person called "Score". This is about the recent skeleton found in a cenote in Mexico.
To quote from this article, "The girl's nearly complete skeleton was discovered by chance in 2007 by expert divers who were mapping water-filled caves north of the city of Tulum, in the eastern part of the Yucatan Peninsula." With prior research or current searches on the Internet, someone would find that these underground water formations are "cenotes". "Cenotes" are almost everywhere in the Yucatan with most being totally underground. It has been well documented that some "cenotes" were used to deposit bones for reasons one can only speculate many thousands of years later in the 21st Century. There are only three major types of DNA with 20 or more subgroup classifications of DNA. Each human gene has some 3 billion individual genomes. To give you an idea of DNA testing as of 2012, the Philidephia Children's Hospital tests for 64 million genomes in their DNA research and Ancestry tests for 600 thousand genomes to classify one's genetic ancestry. It is interesting to note that while eastern Russian DNA is part of the major Mongoloid (Asian) DNA grouping, the far eastern Russian DNA subgrouping is associated with only the native people of most of Alaska, extreme northern Canada, and Greenland to reflect the close ancestry of this Eskimo (Beringia grouping which this article discusses) subgroup by DNA from northernmost North America and Greenland with far eastern Russia. Native Americans south of Alaska and the northern most portions of Canada are also part of the major Mongoloid (Asian) DNA grouping but are a related but totally different DNA subgroup from the eastern Russian, Alaska, Canadian, and Greenland eskimos. This separate Native American DNA subgroup stretches continuously from the southern tip of South America and through North America continuously without interruption stopping only at the northern extremes of North America where the Eskimo DNA subgroup starts. One might ask why this common Native American DNA subgroup for all of the native populated South America and for almost all of North America until the Eskimo DNA subgroup is reached in the farthest north portions of North America comes from the popular lore of the Russia-Alaska land bridge when evidence seems to point otherwise. In 15,000 plus years, there would be many opportunities for many multiple migrations of peoples to the Americas. The South Pacific Islands across the southern portion of the Pacific Ocean and lead directly toward southern Chile. The oldest human remains in the Americas are found in Chile with newer human remains found in slightly ever increasing newness of DNA remains travelling north along the Pacific coast when looking at a map of the location of these remains. The newest human remains in the Americas are along the Pacific coast and are found in Alaska. Based on carbon dating of remains, the logical conclusion is that the settlement of Native Americans started from South America to the North contrary to all popular explanations. Keeping an open mind on what happened more than 15,000 years ago, there are many possibiities and many chances for multiple migrations to the Americas. As the Eskimos of far Eastern Russia, Alaska, far northern Canada, and Greenland are in one of the three major DNA groupings called Mongoloid, so are all of the other Native Americans of North and South America. These two groups, the Eskimos and the Native Americans of most of the Americas, are different subgroups as far as DNA subgrouping of Asian related populations. As each individual human being and each individual gene has 3 billion genomes, I am sure that there is much commonality in many of these genomes between the Eskimo and Native American DNA subgroups of the major Mongoloid (Asian) DNA grouping. This would be completely expected, but it does not link the two different DNA subgroups of the Eskimos and the Native Americans of the Americas. As Professor Jantz questions this article's findings at the conclusion of the article by stating at the conclusion of this article hat the new paper "leaves a lot of unanswered questions."
To quote from this article, "The girl's nearly complete skeleton was discovered by chance in 2007 by expert divers who were mapping water-filled caves north of the city of Tulum, in the eastern part of the Yucatan Peninsula." With prior research or current searches on the Internet, someone would find that these underground water formations are "cenotes". "Cenotes" are almost everywhere in the Yucatan with most being totally underground. It has been well documented that some "cenotes" were used to deposit bones for reasons one can only speculate many thousands of years later in the 21st Century. There are only three major types of DNA with 20 or more subgroup classifications of DNA. Each human gene has some 3 billion individual genomes. To give you an idea of DNA testing as of 2012, the Philidephia Children's Hospital tests for 64 million genomes in their DNA research and Ancestry tests for 600 thousand genomes to classify one's genetic ancestry. It is interesting to note that while eastern Russian DNA is part of the major Mongoloid (Asian) DNA grouping, the far eastern Russian DNA subgrouping is associated with only the native people of most of Alaska, extreme northern Canada, and Greenland to reflect the close ancestry of this Eskimo (Beringia grouping which this article discusses) subgroup by DNA from northernmost North America and Greenland with far eastern Russia. Native Americans south of Alaska and the northern most portions of Canada are also part of the major Mongoloid (Asian) DNA grouping but are a related but totally different DNA subgroup from the eastern Russian, Alaska, Canadian, and Greenland eskimos. This separate Native American DNA subgroup stretches continuously from the southern tip of South America and through North America continuously without interruption stopping only at the northern extremes of North America where the Eskimo DNA subgroup starts. One might ask why this common Native American DNA subgroup for all of the native populated South America and for almost all of North America until the Eskimo DNA subgroup is reached in the farthest north portions of North America comes from the popular lore of the Russia-Alaska land bridge when evidence seems to point otherwise. In 15,000 plus years, there would be many opportunities for many multiple migrations of peoples to the Americas. The South Pacific Islands across the southern portion of the Pacific Ocean and lead directly toward southern Chile. The oldest human remains in the Americas are found in Chile with newer human remains found in slightly ever increasing newness of DNA remains travelling north along the Pacific coast when looking at a map of the location of these remains. The newest human remains in the Americas are along the Pacific coast and are found in Alaska. Based on carbon dating of remains, the logical conclusion is that the settlement of Native Americans started from South America to the North contrary to all popular explanations. Keeping an open mind on what happened more than 15,000 years ago, there are many possibiities and many chances for multiple migrations to the Americas. As the Eskimos of far Eastern Russia, Alaska, far northern Canada, and Greenland are in one of the three major DNA groupings called Mongoloid, so are all of the other Native Americans of North and South America. These two groups, the Eskimos and the Native Americans of most of the Americas, are different subgroups as far as DNA subgrouping of Asian related populations. As each individual human being and each individual gene has 3 billion genomes, I am sure that there is much commonality in many of these genomes between the Eskimo and Native American DNA subgroups of the major Mongoloid (Asian) DNA grouping. This would be completely expected, but it does not link the two different DNA subgroups of the Eskimos and the Native Americans of the Americas. As Professor Jantz questions this article's findings at the conclusion of the article by stating at the conclusion of this article hat the new paper "leaves a lot of unanswered questions."
Friday, May 16, 2014
A Stone Dell (and more Shape-shifting)
...and the answer to Where's the Turtle!
Here he is up close:
I'll keep the big prize and offer this up as a consolation prize:
http://wakinguponturtleisland.blogspot.com/2014/05/a-stone-dell-and-more-shape-shifting.htmlThursday, May 15, 2014
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Shape-shifting Turtle
A story for about a shape-shifting Turtle
- and all the photos here, tagged as High Place ...
and more:
including a possible stone pile turtle:
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Stone roofed enclosure - West Side of Rocky Hill, Leominster
This is a bit unusual:
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an outlier:
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more views:
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In the wall at the back of the enclosure:
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Arrowhead hunting in Concord: flakes... maybe a hammer stone... and a plausible blade reconstruction
Chris's posts often make me go out arrowhead hunting, in shame I have not spent more time looking. With the new plowing and rain it definitely was time to go have a look. I found flakes, most of which were not too interesting after I picked them up:
Chris commented that he had probably picked up and discarded several hammer stones. Here is a pretty good candidate from this same field- where there are no naturally occurring rocks.
If that is a hammer stone, maybe it was attached to a handle.
I went back the next weekend after more rain. Found more flakes:
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Here is most of some kind of scraper. Don't know the material but I have one complete Stark point made from it.
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And here is a plausible blade reconstruction from when I got home.The tip on the right was sitting in a basket at home.
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The flaking, edge work, material, and dimensions all match.
(quartz)
(brown slate-like)
(blue argillite)
Chris commented that he had probably picked up and discarded several hammer stones. Here is a pretty good candidate from this same field- where there are no naturally occurring rocks.
I went back the next weekend after more rain. Found more flakes:
(a type of black rhyolite)
[When I picked up this little rock, it was the broken end of a larger piece. It would have been something long and thin. And in this same spot I have picked up other long thin pieces of black rhyolite, that I keep at home. Would there be a match???]
(another type of black rhyolite)
I am told one kind of black rhyolite comes from Saugus and another from Westwood (it probably is not so simple). But this is clearly different material from the previous.
Here is most of some kind of scraper. Don't know the material but I have one complete Stark point made from it.
And here is a plausible blade reconstruction from when I got home.The tip on the right was sitting in a basket at home.
Monday, May 12, 2014
Older Than Stonehenge
I've been hearing about a Virginia site with "Stones, little stone bears and circles of stones, plus older news about some human hand petroglyphs at the same site."
http://wakinguponturtleisland.blogspot.com/2014/05/older.html
Saturday, May 10, 2014
Friday, May 09, 2014
G.D. Loggers
I mean "god damned". The Leominster Historical Commission was alerted to the threat and, apparently, did nothing. The water department, I think supervising the logging at the south end of Mt Elam Rd, had no clue about historic protection. Finally the equipment gets larger and larger - capable of greater and greater damage. This time, they drove over stone walls, collapsed old water culverts, and erased details of the inner structure of several larger rectangular mounds. Burial disturbances, that's right! On the plus side, these rock piles are pretty robust and the site is still plain to see. On the other hand, details I could make out three years ago are gone today. Really!? Do they have to be such slobs?
This blog is not an organization, and I am not much of an activist. I cannot muster the weight of an organized membership. But why don't archeological societies and hiking groups pay a little attention to the need to communicate with the logging industry?
If you are in such an organization, please comment.
If you are in such an organization, please comment.
Wednesday, May 07, 2014
Rhode Island Signal Rocks (by JimP)
by JimP
In Rhode Island one occasionally finds propped boulders just like these at the top of high outcroppings. Locals at one time called these, "Signal Rocks," and mention of them can still be found in some town records. With the weight of two persons on one side, the heavier side can be lifted and dropped to create a booming sound. The stone underneath acts as a fulcrum.
"All over New England there were bounding rocks. With these the Indians sent messages, by a code, for miles." (Red Wing 1972:354)
RED WING, Princess. 1972. Indian Communications. In College Composition and Communication, Vol. 23, No. 5. (Dec., 1972), pp. 350-356. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.
In Rhode Island one occasionally finds propped boulders just like these at the top of high outcroppings. Locals at one time called these, "Signal Rocks," and mention of them can still be found in some town records. With the weight of two persons on one side, the heavier side can be lifted and dropped to create a booming sound. The stone underneath acts as a fulcrum.
"All over New England there were bounding rocks. With these the Indians sent messages, by a code, for miles." (Red Wing 1972:354)
RED WING, Princess. 1972. Indian Communications. In College Composition and Communication, Vol. 23, No. 5. (Dec., 1972), pp. 350-356. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.
Tuesday, May 06, 2014
Great Falls Massacre - day of rememberance
[speaking of Norumbega...]
Join the Nolumbeka Project at the Great Falls Discovery Center, 2 Ave. A in Turners Falls, on Sunday, May 18, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., for the annual Day of Remembrance of the infamous Great Falls Massacre on May 19, 1676. The program will include a ceremony, video presentation, and conversation. Soups and other refreshments will be on sale. Following the event, there will be a walking tour of the Wissatinnewag property in Greenfield. Please dress appropriately. For more information go to nolumbekaproject.org or phone 413-773-9818
Join the Nolumbeka Project at the Great Falls Discovery Center, 2 Ave. A in Turners Falls, on Sunday, May 18, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., for the annual Day of Remembrance of the infamous Great Falls Massacre on May 19, 1676. The program will include a ceremony, video presentation, and conversation. Soups and other refreshments will be on sale. Following the event, there will be a walking tour of the Wissatinnewag property in Greenfield. Please dress appropriately. For more information go to nolumbekaproject.org or phone 413-773-9818
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