Thursday, June 29, 2023

The beauty of simple things

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Monday, June 26, 2023

Tidal Flats - another intersection between arrowheads and rock piles

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I was hunting for arrowheads on the tidal flats of Barnstable MA and saw a couple of stone structures while I was at it. One was a modern ar...
Saturday, June 24, 2023

Quartz artifacts from North Shore of Cape Cod

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A walk around the neighborhood

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Every time I look more carefully, I find more rock piles in the backyards of the mansions around the Woods Hole Golf Course. There used to b...
Wednesday, June 21, 2023

Happy solstice

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 Enjoy the day.
Monday, June 19, 2023

Attleboro Rhyolite - a nice example from southern New England

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  Everyone likes nice stone tool work.
Friday, June 16, 2023

News about the Nashoba Praying Indians

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Dear Friends of the Nashobah Praying Indians,   We have a big announcement today – Strong Bear Medicine is moving to town [Littleton] in Jul...
Saturday, June 10, 2023

Dreaming of the Pawnee Grasslands - highly polished tools

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I did not realize at the time that these were the same sorts of implement. It makes me want to go back to the Pawnee Grasslands of Colorado ...

Concord arrowheads

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A colleague, Spencer, found these in my old hometown:
Saturday, June 03, 2023

A nice find from Massapoag

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One of the best arrowheads I found this winter. Something like a "Snappit" projectile point:
Monday, May 29, 2023

Goodbye to Boulder

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Rock climbers like these rock faces - the Flatirons -  in Boulder CO. We took a stroll around Chatauqua Park. I noticed this above: (Look ju...

Ceremonial Sites on the way to and from Gold Lake, CO

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Went to look for arrowheads up in the mountains in a "gentle valley" in the mountains not far from Boulder CO. On the way there, a...

Hunting for Archeology near Boulder CO, Day 3 - Gold Lake

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Before visiting Boulder I picked some places that looked worth exploring for arrowheads. One was the Pawnee Grasslands, just to see what was...

Hunting for Archeology near Boulder CO, Day 2 - The Ron Steward Preserve on Rabbit Mountain

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Another one of the types of places in CO that seemed worth exploring for arrowheads were a few spots marked " spring " on my topo ...

Hunting for Archeology around Boulder CO, Day 1 - The Pawnee Grasslands

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When else was I going to get anything like a genuine "Great Plains" experience?. Planning to visit my son in Boulder I spent weeks...
Saturday, May 27, 2023

An incredible piece of rock crystal

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According to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science , this is a piece of rock crystal. I have a hard time believing it. Maybe it is SiO2 cr...

Both Mr. Merriam and Mr. Webster Agree

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   Both Mr. Merriam and Mr. Webster agree that Pareidolia (per-ˌī-ˈdō-lē-ə -ˈdōl-yə) is: "The tendency to perceive a specific, often me...
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Tuesday, May 23, 2023

A slope with stone walls just north of the Boulder CO "Flatirons"

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Consider this slope, which I believe has several deliberate stone lines, forcing game to climb the slope along specific routes.  Here are so...
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The Intersection of Rock Piles and Arrowheads

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Noticing out-of-place rocks and non-random rock arrangements are visual skills that are helpful for looking for rock piles here in the East....
Monday, May 15, 2023

Nolumbeka - Day of Remembrance Gathering May 20

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