Monday, July 04, 2011

Internal Structure of Stone Mounds from Northern Fitchburg MA

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These are from an area of an acre or so containing four good sized stone mounds and several others in different states of disrepair, and wit...
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Saturday, July 02, 2011

Deciphering the Indus Valley Script

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Not rock pile related but a great example of using statistics to gain knowledge of the hidden. [ Click here for Dr Rao's video ]
Thursday, June 30, 2011

Is it a bird?

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This same curious shape keeps coming up. Here it is in northern Fitchburg: We also saw these in Dunstable here (2nd, 3rd, and 4th pics after...

"Traces In the Woods"

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A new blog on stones in the woods. [ Click here ]. Link added to the right.
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Archaeological assessment of the stone mound/wall phenomenon in West Virginia

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James Gage writes: The West Virginia State Historic Preservation Office (WVSHPO) newsletter for March 2011, states the WVSHPO plans on overs...
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011

A mound hunting experiment

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The hypothesis is that there was a mound building culture in northern Middlesex County MA, in towns along the NH border. This culture built ...
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New large mounds with hollows - northern Fitchburg

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I am pretty psyched about these new mounds from northern Fitchburg. Here is another, with enough hint of a corner to suggest it was rectangu...

Flowering Mountain Laurel

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My old friend, across from Ashby West and Fallulah Brook in northernmost Fitchburg: I set off through it.

Stumbling onto more mounds

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This gives a glimpse of the moment:

Giants on the Landscape

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The Sleeping Giant A mural by Stanley Murphy shows the giant Moshup catching a whale. http://wakinguponturtleisland.blogspot.com/2011/06/g...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Quartz projectile points - southeastern MA

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Chris Pittman writes: I did get out a couple of times over the weekend to search a few fields. I had more luck than usual and ended up with ...

Shaman Whalers of Ancient Kodiak Island

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Not rock pile related but an interesting and weird story, from the Anchorage Daily News [ click here ]
Monday, June 27, 2011

Demonstrating Design - old stone tool exercise

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I am going to try demonstrating that some old rocks are actually deliberately manufactured stone tools - badly weathered but still identifia...
Sunday, June 26, 2011

"Ultimate Conference on the Ancient Mysteries"

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This should be an eye-roller: Megalithomania USA, Glastonbury, Connecticut . And yet--I would love to be there!
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Seen in Northern Fitchburg

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More to come.
Saturday, June 25, 2011

A recently damaged rock pile

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by theseventhgeneration I'm not sure what the culprit was trying to create with the wood and plastic, but my guess is, it's a hunter...
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Friday, June 24, 2011

Flatrock Hill, Dunstable MA - a hill too far

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Looking for more mounds with hollows, I went to the next further north hill in Dunstable. It is called Flatrock Hill and is within a mile or...

Dunbarton NH Site

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Chris Pittman writes: ...uploaded some pictures from the little site I found in Dunbarton earlier this month, here is the link: http...
Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Quartz on Rock

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This was a piece of quartz on an separated bit of bedrock, below and visible from a bald spot of solid bedrock. It would have been visible l...