Thursday, May 28, 2020

Encountering familiar local Middlesex County names West of Chicago

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Following the idea that rivers west of Chicago flowing into the Mississippi were busy travel corridors, I was looking for the obvious places...
Monday, May 25, 2020

Mother Earth

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(Peterborough Ontario) Norman Muller writes: Being confined mostly inside for the past two months has given my mind freedom to roam, a...
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OSL Dating of the Oley Hills Site - Norman Muller

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In the current issue of North American Archaeologist (Vol 41(1), 33-50, 2020), is the article “Optically stimulated luminescence dating of ...
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Thursday, May 21, 2020

Anyone still up in the Acton area exploring new woods?

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If there is, I wonder if you could take a look at the woods west of Flushing Hill in Westford.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2020

My little argument with NEARA and the goal of site protection

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It has been the policy of my writing and publishing to expose sites to the public under the general rule that knowledge will protect sites b...
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Sunday, May 17, 2020

Quartz Levanna point with broken tip

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Reader Joshua writes: I found this on the side of the sidewalk on the grass and dirt near a river with dozens of quartz flakes buried nex...
Friday, May 08, 2020

Water and Cahokia

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https://phys.org/news/2020-05-rediscovering-path-milky-archaeology.html
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Thursday, April 30, 2020

Jade at the landfill?

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[Not rock pile related] Came across this while shoveling topsoil from a big pile at the Falmouth landfill into the back of my car. It pays t...
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Friday, April 10, 2020

African monkeys crossed the Atlantic 34 million years ago

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[Not rock pile related, but relevant to the question of early humans crossing the Atlantic] https://phys.org/news/2020-04-ancient-teeth-per...
Thursday, April 09, 2020

The Road to Plymouth/Patuxet (Wôpanâak/Wampanoag Territory)

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      “During her journey, Weetamoo walked well-worn paths through forests which her community had long managed with fire. As Roger Will...

Sign the Mashpee Wampanoag Petition

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[During the Pandemic when no one was looking, the government tries to revoke the Mashpee Wampanoag tribal stutus.] Thank you to 235,000...
Wednesday, April 08, 2020

Mysteries of the Kibby cellar hole in Estabrook Woods, Concord/Carlisle

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Here is a place with various funny things going on. A site with lots of rock piles around a colonial (actually Revolutionary war period) fou...

Manitou's "Boulder Ridge" in Falmouth

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On page 62 of my (2nd) edition of Manitou,  Mavor and Dix describe a site in Falmouth they call "Boulder Ridge". I don't rem...

Nantucket Arrowheads

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Reader Nathaniel writes: I started my arrowheading obsession about 3 years ago when I was living on Nantucket. It took me 2 years to find a...
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Stone turtle

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Reader Donald writes:   One of my favorite rocks are the ones shaped like a turtle as we know how important the turtle was to the Native Am...
Saturday, March 21, 2020

The Equinox is Cancelled

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I want to express some thoughts about the corona virus pandemic. Perhaps readers would care to add something in the comments? On the other h...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Ancient secret of lightning strikes at stone circles revealed

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Not rock pile related: https://www.heritagedaily.com/2020/03/ancient-secret-of-lightning-strikes-at-stone-circles-revealed/126571 I thin...
Thursday, March 05, 2020

Re-reading old posts

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Came across this nice account from Chris Pittman, which I had forgotten: https://rockpiles.blogspot.com/2012/06/arrowhead-odyssey.html
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Wednesday, March 04, 2020

Protruding Head Variation (Madison CT)

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A Hilltop Row of Stones above a salt marsh, a possible Serpent or Snake Effigy: The inset shows the view above, highlighted in white, ...

Stone Mounds on Facebook

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https://www.facebook.com/john.fisher.39948856/videos/10151389909908356/
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