Friday, November 27, 2020

Interesting statement about Wabanaki History

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 A Final Response to Reinvented Abenaki at Ne-Do-Ba
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Saturday, November 21, 2020

Golden Eagle on a Ceremonial Structure

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Somewhere in Spain (Valle de Iruelas Avila?)... Somewhere on YouTube....( here ) Looks like one of those burials they excavate in Scotland. ...
Thursday, November 19, 2020

Ice Age Relic/Balancing Rock (Watertown CT)

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Florence T. Crowell Photo Accessed from:  https://www.facebook.com/334846928460/photos/a.337556648460/10157676881323461 Watertown CT Histori...
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Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Indian Rock Piles in the Massachusetts Woods - Waksman's 2014 lecture in Acton

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Edited a bit, sloppy in some places, nevertheless this contains much of the basic "logic" of this subject. Hope it is entertaining...
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Friday, November 13, 2020

Split Wedged Rock - Sippewissett

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  There should be word for this: when a dog posts guard on top of a structure. Note the steel drill holes and the already removed portion of...
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Connelly Hill

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 Are there any readers from the Holliston/Upton area that can go check a site? I was glancing at the map: Given the extremely rich collectio...
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Thursday, November 12, 2020

Which Turtle? Which Place?

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  The Significance of a Stone Turtle   Or a Turtle Made of Stones  Depends on Which Turtle in Which Place Above: Judges Woods Turtle E...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2020

So what if it looks like a turtle?

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OK, I may be in some disagreement with my colleagues who are sending pictures of rocks that look like turtles, or rock piles that look like ...
Sunday, November 08, 2020

Another Quick Comparison

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Possible 'Turtle' Rocks

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Norman Muller writes: I read your recent post about single stones resembling turtle heads.  Maybe yes, maybe no,  I prefer something clearer...
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A Quick Comparison

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Saturday, November 07, 2020

A couple turtles in Beebee Woods, Falmouth

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A small concession to my friend Tim MacSweeney. I have to admit that these rock-on-rock examples had turtle head shapes. Seems pretty delibe...
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Thursday, November 05, 2020

A minimal site in Woods Hole

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A site can occupy as little as 10x10 square feet, so it is not surprising to find something in even the smallest patch of woods. There is a ...
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Saturday, October 31, 2020

The spread of Mississippian Culture

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https://theconversation.com/cahokian-culture-spread-across-eastern-north-america-1-000-years-ago-in-an-early-example-of-diaspora-130106 I wa...
Wednesday, October 28, 2020

The Last of the “Woodbridge Indians”

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   "According to Woodbridge resident Edee Lockyer, who visited the cemetery as a child in the 1940s, the graves were then mounded up an...
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Sunday, October 25, 2020

Clovis only lasted 300 years

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  (Not rock pile related): https://phys.org/news/2020-10-tools-north-america-earliest-inhabitants.html
Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Curt Hoffman Talk - Wednesday night Zoom

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Oct 21 7 PM EST Curt is talking in Acton:  https://zoom.us/j/92492270291?pwd=RGZtKzMxR0VBZ1Fka1JXOE05M3RnUT09 Passcode: 716028
Saturday, October 17, 2020

What did the Indians know?

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Since first learning about ceremonial stone structures I have wondered, as have others, how much of the specific ceremonies is remembered by...
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Friday, October 16, 2020

Ice Age culture in Straits of Mackinac

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 https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/10/14/straits-mackinac-ice-age-culture-native-american-tribes/5978992002/
Thursday, October 15, 2020

Medawlinno Footprints (Henniker NH)

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       Sherry L. Gould writes: "These footprints are in Henniker NH where the Abenaki believe foot prints were left here by Medawlinno....