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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, June 30, 2017

Ancient petroform in Manitoba's Whiteshell Park destroyed

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Rocks that formed shape of snake at sacred site rearranged into inukshuk Austin Grabish - CBC News  June 30, 2017  An inukshuk ...
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Wednesday, June 28, 2017

The Noble Point Effigy (Alberta, Canada)

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(The Noble Point not-a-turtle Effigy?)     “The Noble Point effigy (DjPa-1) is on the north edge of Chin Coulee, approximately 25 km...
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Tuesday, June 27, 2017

"Stylus Stone" from Hillman Mn

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Reader Brian T writes: ... While investigating the rock cairn I found The "inscribed" rock on, I found a small fashioned tool  ( ...
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Thursday, June 22, 2017

Above Above The Falls - Bolton

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I wrote about "Above the Falls" before. The Ladies from Harvard also found it, and later Gail Coolidge found another site on ...
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Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Conservationists Want You to Stop Building Rock Piles

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From the Smithsonian.com I particularly like their quote from High Country News:   indigenous peoples in the United States often used cai...
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Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Stemmed Gems

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I haven't found anything lately, but I was looking at my arrowhead collection and had forgotten finding the long tapered "Stark...

Fine "geology" - Propped Boulder Stagecoach Rd Lunenburg

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What a spot. Added: I just remembered Mavor and Dix reported a similar find, with Norman Muller sending photos and discussion here . D...
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Thursday, June 15, 2017

Seen on Netflix

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The rock pile jumps out of the picture for a moment. And a few moments later: What is up with that? Korean marker piles?

Beautiful stone tool

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Not from the US but who can resist a beautiful stone tool? https://phys.org/news/2017-06-neanderthal-homo-sapiens-transition.html
Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Traversing Grassy Pond Conservation Land - Acton, MA

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I took a couple walks last month, both in Acton, going through woods and bits of people's backyards for an entire walk of 2-3 hours, wit...
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