Monday, October 13, 2008

Marker Pile sites galore

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For the last nine years I have been reporting on rock pile sites where the rock piles lie in lines and are more-or-less evenly spaced along ...

COLUMBUS AND THE INDIANS

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"When we read the history books given to children in the United States, it all starts with heroic adventure--there is no bloodshed-and...
Sunday, October 12, 2008

Appetizer

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Thursday, October 09, 2008

A small site in Hopkinton State Park

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I am having a "dry spell" . I spent last weekend driving about 70 miles, twice, looking for a decent woods to explore. The first o...
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Rumblings of important events - The Turner Falls Rock Piles

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Some years ago, during planning for an airport extension in Turner Falls, MA, a survey found a rock pile site. Since the extension involved ...
Wednesday, October 08, 2008

Busy at work

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and only one small site to report, tomorrow.
Monday, October 06, 2008

More on Indiana stone mounds

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Searching on Google. From "Indiana and Indianans" [ Click here ] See page 10. There is, first a discussion of "many small sto...

What stone mound problem?

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From the bibliography of "An Introduction to the Pre-history of Indiana" online. Kellar, James H. 1960 The C. L. Lewis Stone Mo...
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Sunday, October 05, 2008

Stone Johnnies

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These are also called Sheepherder's Cairns [ click here ]. A particularly nice one here .
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Short stretches of stone wall, rock piles, mounds, and inscriptions from Missouri

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From "Rock Art of Missouri" [ click here ] Several photos or rock piles. These items from Missouri look no different from things I...

Return to the Mortar/Turtle (Part Two)

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I expected to document the colors of the leaves along the linear stone rows that lead to the zigzag rows surrounding the wetland areas up wh...
Thursday, October 02, 2008

Land use and rock piles at Long Hill Bolton, MA

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Looking at the map of this hilltop, you can see the orchards, which are in use today. When I stepped into the woods near the blue outline th...
Wednesday, October 01, 2008

Alignments

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Looking for something else, I came across a bunch of different drawings (and a photo) in my sketch books, some with dates, some without - in...
Tuesday, September 30, 2008

The Stupid Sheet - new revision including lunar standstills

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Rock circle and stone wall - Wellesley, MA

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From Ji: These are more basic. On the stone clrcle-- Noting the shape, the dimensions and the quartzite, this could possibly be a grave. The...

In the woods in the rain - Harvard, Boxborough, Littleton

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with lousy color fidelity and poor blurry pictures. I am not sure which town this is in. A split wedged rock on the right at the termination...
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Simple Form of Ecosystem Management

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I keep thinking about a few words (I just used in a post) from that A.M. Gibson quote from “The American Indian (1980).” I came across it on...

Return to the Mortar/Turtle (Part One)

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This "Return" will take a few posts... Up in the northwest corner of CT, fairly recently, a road was bulldozed into former farmlan...
Sunday, September 28, 2008

Walls at Cononchet

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Norman Muller writes: Larry Harrop has put together a series of photos and a map explaining unusual wall or row constructions at Canonchet, ...
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Downhill from Mavor and Dix's "central mound"

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I mentioned here that there were other large rock piles in addition to the one described in M&D and also within the innermost area surr...