Monday, October 31, 2022

Peter Waksman to Talk in Acton - November 3rd

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I was invited to give a talk at the Acton, MA Library. The title is  "The History of the Ceremonial Stone Landscape Movement - a Local ...
Saturday, October 29, 2022

Roadside Segment of Stones (Watertown CT)

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  Indigenous Stonework, a  Qusukqaniyutôk ,  in the  Paugussett Homeland https://wakinguponturtleisland.blogspot.com/2022/10/roadside-segmen...
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Friday, October 21, 2022

Red Wing MN - The Goodhue County Historical Museum

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We went to the museum as a follow up to visiting some of the "cairns". I wanted to see info about the geology of the area, maybe a...

Visiting Red Wing MN - finding the cairns

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We woke up in Lake City, south of Red Wing, to a day with the first snowfall. Trying to decide whether to go walking outside, we had nothing...
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Thursday, October 20, 2022

We found some of the Red Wing Cairns - appetizer

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There is more to come, but this is my best picture. The mound at the end of the ridge my wife is standing on, is another larger, undisturbed...
Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Retaining Walls (and a Woodbridge CT mention)

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     The sentence in bold, italicized letters  - also in parentheses -  is my  own edi torial addition. -Tim “To know New England well, on...
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Friday, October 14, 2022

Passing Red Wing MN, light snow.... should we go look for damaged cairns?

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We have a morning to kill on the way through this part of Minnesota. But should we plan a short hike in a light snow?  So, then... [More lat...
Thursday, October 06, 2022

Am I crazy or is that an arrowhead made from a bottle?

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I was looking very carefully at the gravel on Ram Island today. This just looks man made to me: I am particularly suspicious of the serratio...
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Tuesday, October 04, 2022

Two thousand year old hunter's blinds from the Yukon

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(From Alan P)  I wrote to you a while back about the effort to protect the Archaic site in Northampton where the city and state intended to ...
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Friday, September 30, 2022

Stemmed Point (broken) from Woods Hole

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A nice material, a bit of almost pure feldspar, from the "pink" granite we have around here. It is actually a single feldspar crys...
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Monday, September 19, 2022

In the footprints of Mavor and Dix - but ending up in a different place

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I have been trying to find the place in Freetown that they write about in Manitou . Those familiar with the book will recall they excavated ...
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