Saturday, February 26, 2022
Thursday, February 24, 2022
New underground sensing technology
Sensor breakthrough paves way for groundbreaking map of world under Earth surface (phys.org)
I hope it is affordable and portable.
Wednesday, February 23, 2022
Not a pure rectangle
I was just out in the woods showing "rectangular mounds" to skeptical people. Every time I tried to argue that the thing was rectangular, I was forced to observe that one corner was slightly off. Three times in a row, looking at three separate mounds, I saw this:
I'll sleep better now. Now that I am telling the truth:)
Apparently this is not entirely new information. See Figure 4 here: Bulletin of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society, Vol. 73, No. 2 (bridgew.edu)
Tuesday, February 15, 2022
Old Connecticut Path: Waters Farm & Manchaug Pond -- West Sutton, MA
Also known as the Nipmuc Path, Wikipedia tells us:
"The Old Connecticut Path was the Native American trail that led westward from the area of Massachusetts Bay to the Connecticut River Valley, the first of the North American trails that led west from the settlements close to the Atlantic seacoast, towards the interior. The earliest colonists of Massachusetts Bay Colony used it, and rendered it wider by driving cattle along it. The old route is still followed, for part of its length, by Massachusetts Route 9 and Massachusetts Route 126..."
Some Screen
Captures:
Friday, February 11, 2022
Afoot in Connecticut 29 - Glacial Erratics
Eric D. Lehman is the author of Bridgeport: Tales from the Park City and Hamden: Tales from the Sleeping Giant. He teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Bridgeport and his series Afoot in Connecticut highlights the Nutmeg State's natural and historical treasures. This episode finds Eric in Seymour, Woodbridge, and the Naugatuck State Forest, examining a few glacial erratics.
Wednesday, February 09, 2022
Monday, February 07, 2022
Tuesday, February 01, 2022
Creating Rock Walls (CA)
“Tsektsel is derived from Yurok and means roughly "a place" (Wylie 1976).
Alyssa Alexandria photo
Paved Logging Road on U.S. Land Called Threat to Freedom of
Religion
BY RUSSELL CHANDLER (AUG. 25, 1985) TIMES RELIGION WRITER
ORLEANS, Calif. — “… among the jagged rock outcroppings of
the “high country” of the Siskiyou Mountains and along the banks of the
rushing, salmon-filled waters of the Klamath and Trinity rivers--there is a
quiet resurgence of native American tribal religion.
Ceremonial sites for traditional religious dances that had
long fallen into disuse are being reconstructed in this pristine corner of
northwest California at spots with exotic names like Ishi Pishi Falls,
Weitchpec, Hoopa and Kota-Mein. (The latter, in the Karuk language, means
“center of the world.”)
Alyssa Alexandria photo
The death and rebirth of the world were reenacted by building sacred structures, such as dance arenas and underground sweat houses, and creating sacred fires and rock walls related to acquisition of power by shamans (priests) and their assistants…At the extreme east tip of Chimney Rock is a tsektsel , a rock circle forming a rudimentary “prayer seat.” There, a meditator can survey the entire landscape. On a recent clear day, one could see the tip of Mt. Shasta to the east, Preston Peak to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the west..."
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-08-25-mn-24849-story.html
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
John Stilgoe, Thorson, Ives and Sherlock Holmes
Something I was thinking about this morning:
“The Art of Looking - It can be taught, but it’s
hard for people to accept the fact that there’s a visual way of knowing,”
Stilgoe says...
https://wakinguponturtleisland.blogspot.com/2022/01/john-stilgoe-thorson-ives-and-sherlock.html
Portable Manitou?
I rescued this from a sandpit, long ago in Concord.
I think that is a well-defined flake scar.
The material looks like it might have been pecked here below the "arm".
This stone might have been used for something practical, to produce the uniform polish over the whole object. The only place that it is not shiny is the surface that was exposed when I found it. Any guesses?
Tuesday, January 18, 2022
Friday, January 14, 2022
About that Neanderthal DNA
[Not rock pile related] I was enjoying watching this and recommend watching some of it:
Tales of Human History Told by Neandertal and Denisovan DNA That Persist in Modern Humans - YouTube
At around 7:25, he more or less proves that Neanderthals were in the New World.
Thursday, January 13, 2022
I watch B-grade movies, so you don't have to
Watching free movies on TUBI, I dropped into Once Upon a Time in the Apocalypse at random, a few moments before this scene at 32:28.
I doubt the director invented that line of small rocks pointing towards a rock pile (or is that just an outcrop?)
It kind of looks like the Sierras.
Wednesday, January 12, 2022
Ripple Effect
The Ripples Timothy Ives is creating are spreading, distorting further his own distorted point of view about Ceremonial Stone Landscapes.
This morning I find another article in yet another online magazine:
A cairn circle.(Ethan_Doyle_White via Wikimedia Commons)
Stoned In America
Bruce Gilley January 12, 2022
Dr. Timothy Ives has written an
elegant and scholarly work exposing the academic fraud and political larceny of
the "ceremonial stone landscape" movement.”
"While there are many confluences of academic misconduct and racial anxiety in the contemporary West, few are so fun to read about as the phenomenon of “ceremonial stone landscape” activism in contemporary New England, especially in the gentle hands of Dr. Timothy Ives, principal archaeologist of the Rhode Island Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission.
He has
written an elegant and scholarly work exposing the academic fraud and political
larceny of a movement that seeks to have stone piles left behind by early
American farmers redesignated as pre-European spiritual temples built by
Indians. It is a warning..."
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/stoned-in-america/
Ives seems to be unfamiliar with the Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) dates that are emerging in the scientific literature for some of these sites, some of which go back thousands of years. The age of the sample from the Site of Hopkinton, Rhode Island is in the range of 1570-1490 C.E (or 490 ± 40 years ago). The ages of the samples from Pratt Hill near Upton, Massachusetts, at a site that was recently desecrated by being scraped off the boulder foundation it was originally built on, are 1475-1375 C.E. (595 ± 50 years) for the top sample and 1315-1835 B.C.E (3,595 ± 260 years) for the bottom sample. These samples were obtained from dust or loess that had blown into the structure and collected in the scooped out hollow of the boulder foundation. https://www.usgs.gov/data/optically-stimulated-luminescence-osl-data-and-ages-selected-native-american-sacred-ceremonial
Monday, January 10, 2022
Possible Manitou Stone
Sent by reader Colin, who writes:
This stone is located in Tyngsboro, right by the Merrimack river on the property of first settler Edward Tyng.
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