Monday, September 22, 2008

Turtle Island

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Prompted by the comment below, I added the above poster that hangs in my bedroom... From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Turtle Isl...
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Exploring a Valley in Harvard, MA (part 2)

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Here again is the map. Let's start looking at the larger site on the hillside: What seems to be a steep slope actually has a shoulder wi...
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Exploring a valley in Harvard MA

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I noticed a piece of woods on the topo map. I had explored it before but not thoroughly and I saw that if I headed north, rather than east f...
Monday, September 15, 2008

Rock piles in the ferns

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Oh yeah. This is from a new site in Harvard, MA. More to follow.

Cinnamon Fern, Poison Ivy, and a Split-Wedged Rock

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Saturday, September 13, 2008

A platform pile by a brook at that "roadside site in Sterling"

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Almost not worth reporting but somehow, to me, these rectangular piles at the edge of water are a kind of "big game". I associate ...

Fort Miami is an ancient waterworks not a fort

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[Click here] (via archaeological )
Friday, September 12, 2008

Eastern States Rock Art Conference

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(Thanks for Norman Muller for this information) In the Summer 2008 ESRARA Newsletter, there is a notice on page 16 of upcoming conferences, ...
Thursday, September 11, 2008

A roadside rock pile site in Sterling, MA

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I was driving along Elm Street from Leominster down into Sterling and saw a rock pile a few feet from the road under the pine saplings. It t...

Small snapping turtle

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The shell was about 6" long:
Wednesday, September 10, 2008

One site report coming

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After last weekend, I have one little site to report from Sterling, MA. But with Tim doing all the heavy lifting this week, I am enjoying th...
Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Yurok, Karok, and Rocks

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Mavor and Dix have a bunch of Yurok references in “Manitou,” mostly taken from a 1925 book on CA Indians. I recall highlighting “rock ref.’s...
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New "Friends of the Falls" Post

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New Post: http://friendsofthefalls.blogspot.com/2008/09/my-controlled-burn.html .
Monday, September 08, 2008

Observing the rising and setting of celestial bodies

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Click on some of the pictures of text in Tim's post below and you can see one of them includes a discussion of the affect of dis-continu...
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Is That a Bear?

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A composite photo: Peter's Sunday, September 07, 2008 post, "A small site at the start of a brook - Harvard, MA," and photos f...
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Waking Up (and Burning) Again Again

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That "Burning Question" was on my mind again this morning when I woke up  (on Turtle Island again) . Much of my own personal libr...
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Sunday, September 07, 2008

A small site at the start of a brook - Harvard, MA

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You step off the road in Harvard and more or less expect to find rock piles. There was a patch of woods I never explored, along Rt 111, so I...
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