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Rock Piles

This is about rock piles and stone mound sites in New England. A balance is needed between keeping them secret and making them public. Also arrowheads, stone tools and other surface archaeology.

Friday, July 29, 2016

Pocumtuck Homelands Festival

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From the Nolembeka Project.
Sunday, July 24, 2016

Speaking of Walls and Rock Piles...

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(and "Serpent Stacking") {Referring to the post:  http://rockpiles.blogspot.com/2011/12/speaking-of-walls-and-rock-piles.html...
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Saturday, July 23, 2016

"Oldest Stone Tools" found at Gault site in Texas

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http://westerndigs.org/16000-year-old-tools-discovered-in-texas-among-the-oldest-yet-found-in-the-west/

Michigan's Mystery Monuments - The use of a landscape geography technique in the study of stone cultural features:

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A U of NH study, via Norman Muller: https://www.unh.edu/unhtoday/2016/07/michigans-mystery-monuments
Thursday, July 21, 2016

Natural-Cultural Landscape Presentation by Nolumbeka Project Vice-President this week-end

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From the Nolumbeka Project:   Natural-Cultural Landscape ltural Landscape of the Connecticut River Valley Saturday, July 23rd at 10:00am-...
Monday, July 18, 2016

Another Old Newspaper Article

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 There were no photos accompanying this NY Time article, so I just had to illustrate it myself (although you could use many a photo from th...
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Saturday, July 16, 2016

Mulberry Mounds (Dacula, Ga) - 2013

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http://wakinguponturtleisland.blogspot.com/2016/07/mulberry-mounds-dacula-ga-2013.html
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Thursday, July 14, 2016

Latest update on Hopping Brook desecration

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Turns out we may be looking at permitting irregularities. There was a EPS/NEPA permitt needed for "storm water removal" Native ...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Why get caught un-prepared?

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It is striking that the threat to the Holliston site has been known for more than 10 years: to Holliston Historical Society, and to NEARA me...

Native American mounds a casualty of Hopping Brook expansion (Holliston MA)

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By Bill Shaner Daily News staff    "HOLLISTON – Along the edge of woods that crews have recently cut to expand the Hopping B...
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Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Bulldozing the temple

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Here stands an ancient relic, a monument to the dead. One of many.  Undisturbed for hundreds of years, now the bulldozers are driving up. ...
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Monday, July 11, 2016

Hopping Brook - development starts at a massive Indian Burial Ground

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Just thought you should know. I heard from Mathew Howes that they are bulldozing around and over the mounds at Hopping Brook. Now these are ...
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Saturday, July 02, 2016

On Vacation

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Summer schedule: light to no blogging.
Wednesday, June 29, 2016

A small arrangement of stones - SW Rocky Hill Groton/Ayer

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Came upon a boulder with a rock pile on top. Looked around a bit and the boulder seemed part of a line of boulders: A bit like a guns...

Sometimes rock piles are not ceremonial

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Came across this one by itself.  For some reason I cleaned off the leaves, which usually don't do.  What's that in the middle?...
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Thursday, June 23, 2016

Short stretch of wall Sudbury State Forest

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From the same location as my previous post. This seemed to be a short stretch of wall going downhill to end in a boulder but actually the wa...

Sudbury State Forest - Deerfoot Park

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I went back to the place I posted about here in 2012 (there is a map) which is a place with rock piles built into the outcrops. I saw them a...

Shaped Rock from Northboro

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Reader Christian C. writes: I have been following your Blog for quite some time and find the subject very interesting. I live in Northbor...
Saturday, June 18, 2016

Arrowhead finds - June

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     It hasn't rained much, but I have had some luck and am happy to have some photos to share.      Here are a couple of broken find...
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Friday, June 17, 2016

The Ograbme that Grabbed Me

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I was looking at this wall this morning: "Since I have had more than one snapping turtle give me this exact sort of look,  I am r...
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