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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.

Sunday, August 14, 2022

"Soaring With Eagles" - stone mounds in Georgia

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[via Norman Muller] Soaring With Stone Eagles - Archaeology Magazine  
Friday, August 12, 2022

Summer....it was nice to see you....sad to see you go

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Tiverton Appetizer

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  I decided I needed a hike and drove an hour off-Cape to get to someplace interesting. Tiverton turned out to be a good choice and, as I st...
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Thursday, August 11, 2022

Mark Starr's 3D Models

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 [via Norman Muller, these are fantastic images] https://ceremonialstonework3d.wordpress.com
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Monday, August 08, 2022

Moncacht-Ape 's journey across North America

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 [Not rock pile related but interesting] (8) The Incredible Journey of Moncacht ApĂ© Across North America - YouTube
Tuesday, August 02, 2022

37K old site found in New Mexico

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New Mexico mammoths among best evidence for early humans in North America (phys.org) I note a couple of bits of sloppiness in the reporting....
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Sunday, July 24, 2022

Mistaking man for earthquake

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Balancing act: Can precariously perched boulders signal long-term earthquake risk? (phys.org)
Sunday, July 10, 2022

Rest in peace Larry Harrop

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Our community will be sad to hear that Larry Harrop died. No details are available, other than that he died in early June. Larry was an occa...
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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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