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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, December 31, 2023

Best arrowhead finds 2023

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It's the last day of the year, a time for me to look back. These are my favorite arrowhead finds from this year.  I found these at 8 dif...
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Friday, December 29, 2023

Mysterious Rock Structures found Hidden in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park!

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Mysterious Rock Structures found Hidden in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park! (youtube.com)
Saturday, December 23, 2023

Diamond and Horns

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"Diamond" and Horns(?) on Big Snake head, Peck Hill in Woodbridge CT?? From Tim MacSweeney [PWAX says: Tim may be thinking this re...
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Saturday, December 09, 2023

The Stones We Carry - O'Riordan PhD Thesis Defence

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For a PhD Dissertation at University of Connecticut. This compares approaches to studying Ceremonial Stone Structures (or ignoring them). CL...
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Thursday, December 07, 2023

[Corrected] Surveying the stone tool making debris in the neighborhood of a little Nevada Hill

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This is an addendum to the overview posted here .
Sunday, December 03, 2023

Small Children , Small Stone Prayers, Small Turtle Effigies (Nonnewaug CT)

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    “Historically, archaeologists have devoted few resources to understanding the social roles and activities of children...Lucy (2005) attr...
Sunday, November 26, 2023

Revisiting a little hill in the Nevada Desert

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Monday, November 20, 2023

Scottish Rock Pile

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 They don't mess around.
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Thursday, November 16, 2023

Closing out a year of arrowhead hunting.

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It has been several month since I found anything. After walking and walking, hour after hour, it is always a bit of a shock when the piece o...
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Friday, November 10, 2023

Covering historic signs

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  Concord officials look to cover up Massachusetts historic signs due to their 'offensive' nature (bostonherald.com) This upsets me....
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Ceremonial Stones from Honey Hollow VT

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[From reader Hazel over several emails] I'm including for fun, some of my favorite images of the stones I have 'discovered' in H...
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Thursday, November 02, 2023

From Mike Luoma

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Hope you're doing well... In my ongoing attempt to educate folks about Indigenous stonework, I'm offering my thoughts on designed el...
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Wednesday, November 01, 2023

NESSHIE - In search of Nashoba

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  (4) In Search of Nashobah, Part 1 - Site 000345 - YouTube

Southern AZ. Is that a pyramid? ...You decide

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part 1: part 2:
Monday, October 30, 2023

Vote on preserving the Webster-Bulkeley CSL land on November 1 in Littleton

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 A reminder from the Friends of the Nashoba. Update:  Sadly the town did not come up with the $

The Stones We Carry: Avocational Science, Epistemics, and Identity in New England’s Cultural Stone Features Debate

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Kitty -O'Riordan from UConn, is defending her PhD Thesis on the debate about Ceremonial Stone Landscapes. It should be of great general ...
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Sunday, October 29, 2023

A pair of little quartz points from RI

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Rhode Island Arrowheads - "Cumberland/Barnes phase"

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Josh in Rhode Island sends this: Over the last four years I have found some really rare and unique treasures at the beach including points f...
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Thursday, October 19, 2023

Heard there were arrowheads at Waquoit

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I can believe it. But I think the nice ones must be all gone. This material is argillite.
Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Woodpecker Drummers?

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  https://www.scribd.com/read/230095531/Reading-Rock-Art-Interpreting-the-Indian-Rock-Paintings-of-the-Canadian-Shield
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