Saturday, December 31, 2022

Holiday Season Arrowhead Hunting

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I had the pleasure of a visiting son who shares my enthusiasm for arrowhead hunting. Knowing some places where we might succeed, having been...
Thursday, December 29, 2022

A crude gouge from Rhode Island

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Not sure why I bent over and picked this up: It looked like it had some modifications and hope springs eternal that I might someday find a c...
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Sunday, December 25, 2022

"Clovis First" dies again

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OSU archaeologists, on Idaho dig, find oldest known projectile points in the Americas - KTVZ   Update: It is sad that so much focus is appli...
Saturday, December 24, 2022

Early seafarers crossed the Mediterranean.

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[Re: peopling of the Americas] Ancient Humans May Have Sailed The Mediterranean 450,000 Years Ago : ScienceAlert The assumption that all of ...
Friday, December 23, 2022

Red Rhyolite/Jasper blade from a Falmouth beach

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  Back home: After searching beaches most of my life, particularly in the last few years since finding arrowheads in Concord, it comes as a ...
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Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Quartz point from Raynham, MA

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First in a long time, since retiring and looking for new places to hunt. I do not really count the ones from places that Chris P. showed me ...
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Monday, December 19, 2022

Quantitative measurement of the "field clearing hypothesis"

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I never pulled it off but have always believed it would not be hard to prove a field clearing pile had (relatively) random sized rocks - a u...
Friday, December 16, 2022

Quartz tools in glacial sands - what do they mean?

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[Not rock pile related]  I was driving around the "Head of the Bay" in Bourne, at the top of Buzzard's Bay. It occurred to me ...
Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Aerial Archeology - California Hight Desert

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Along CA 168 near "Gilbert Pass" southwest of Fish Lake Valley at the north end of Deep Springs Valley. What the heck is that circ...
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Monday, December 12, 2022

Adena earthwork/rock pile - Ohio

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Get's interesting around 20 minutes in. Ancient Adena Ruins Found and More - YouTube
Friday, December 09, 2022

Another Serpent Surprise (Nonnewaug CT Cluster #3)

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  While walking to the mailbox, I had another Serpent Surprise ... "Symbolic and decorative modes of communication"  https://wakin...
Thursday, December 01, 2022

A Dam Serpent Surprise (Watertown CT)

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 Can you spot the Indigenous Iconography in this photo?  More here:  https://wakinguponturtleisland.blogspot.com/2022/12/a-dam-serpent-surpr...
Wednesday, November 30, 2022

The secret lives of paleoindians.

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Not rock pile related but nicely done. (2) Tom Loebel's ECIAS The Secret Lives of Paleoindians Talk - YouTube Some very interesting idea...
Monday, November 28, 2022

Curious stone tool - Quissett Harbor

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Picked this up because it is so obviously a percussive flake: You see a "bulb of percussion", and little radiating lines. Also the...
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Sunday, November 27, 2022

Another (possibly last) walk in Tiverton

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Entering Tiverton from the north on Rt 24, you climb a hill from Fall River, MA up to the sign welcoming you to Rhode Islands. From there so...
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Snake Effigies and Riders/Rails (CT)

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        Stephanie Ashman's photo above seemed so familiar to me and it didn't take long to recall the photos below, as well as a dra...