Monday, June 27, 2022

A hole, trailing cobbles, and adjacent mound.

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https://youtu.be/R4mDAq3Gzwo This is in Wheeler Woods, west side of the new trail made by the Buzzard's Bay Coalition, who bought a heck...
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Bullseyes and Rings

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 I saw a couple of ring-inside-ring structures a year or so ago, at Quisset Harbor on Cape Cod (see here ), mixed in with some other example...
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A little "spell" in stones

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Just being a contrarian, I think there is a slight different between a "spell" and a "prayer". The latter suggests somet...
Sunday, June 26, 2022

Eagle Rock 4H Mounds (GA)

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(Replaces a removed post from 6/2016) Mound Report:  The following chapters are excerpts from a larger report titled: “Archeological and His...
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Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Removing stones from rock piles for "safekeeping"

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In the previous post [see  here ] Norman describes a "Gorget on a Rock Pile" and mentions that there was an unusual "gorget...
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Saturday, June 18, 2022

Gorget on a rock pile

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From Norman Muller: In 2011 I was with a small group of NEARA members in Rochester, VT, which was led by Ernie Clifford.  We visited site R7...
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Tuesday, June 14, 2022

Great Plains Site

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  (3) Great Plains Indigenous Site 000: Tipi Rings, Cairns etc 2019-03-16 - YouTube
Monday, June 13, 2022

“Stonewalls in a Gully” (VT)

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  Josh Smart   Hidden Vermont   https://youtu.be/vl73eVwt57o
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Why don't they have stone arrowheads in Europe?

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I cannot find any pictures of elegant stonework from -say- France that is any more recent than those fine Solutrean blades. But what were th...
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Saturday, June 04, 2022

Our Vanishing Ceremonial Stone Landscape (CT)

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    Apparently, I’m documenting Our Vanishing Ceremonial Stone Landscape more than anything else these days. Similar to Eric Sloane writing...
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Thursday, June 02, 2022

A last word about Canonchet

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In the previous post, we saw a low rectangular mound that was different from the nicely built biscuits surrounding it. I forgot to mention o...
Friday, May 27, 2022

A trip to Canonchet

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Went for a drive with my middle son, David, to southwestern RI and Canonchet . Having heard about Canonchet for many years, I thought it wou...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2022

On Rehumanizing Pleistocene People of the Western Hemisphere

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If First Peoples did not leave behind monuments...   Published online by Cambridge University Press:   01 December 2021   Bonnie L. Pitbla...
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Monday, May 23, 2022

Multiple Choice

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Stone Structure in California's White Mountains - Elizabeth Wing photo A.) A Stone Wall identical to those found in the "lowland hi...
Sunday, May 22, 2022

Parker Woodland - Coventry RI

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  (17) Parker Woodland - Audubon Wildlife Refuge by Walt Barrett
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Friday, May 20, 2022

Updating an old post with LiDar (Washington CT)

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 An Ancient Road and an Ancient Effigy by an Old Turnpike on the side of a newer State Highway... https://wakinguponturtleisland.blogspot.co...
Wednesday, May 18, 2022

Appetizer

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Intentionally Made Zigzag Rows of Stones (Nonnewaug CT)

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   The Pootatuck made zigzag rows of stones are of the type most people attribute to a progression of events that follows the construction o...