Saturday, February 24, 2024

On a hilltop south of Sloan Canyon, NV

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  Note various signs of ceremonialism in the foreground.
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Sunday, February 11, 2024

A good day arrowhead hunting

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Sometimes on a good day you find more than one arrowhead. The ensemble takes on a particular life of its own: the life of that day in the fi...
Thursday, February 01, 2024

Nevada Colors

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I have to imagine there is some turquoise rock in there: (north west end of the Spring Mountains)
Friday, January 26, 2024

What is wrong with 100K years ago for the "First American"?

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According to the internet (I have been curious about bighorn sheep): The ancestors of bighorn sheep resided in the mountain and desert reg...
Monday, January 22, 2024

Is that a petroglyph of a hunting site "bullseye"?

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I have been collecting pictures of what I call "funnels". The vocabulary hasn't stabilized yet but I am talking about a "...
Sunday, January 21, 2024

Guidelines for visiting ceremonial stone landscape (CSL) sites

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The Friends of Nashobah and the Friends of Pinehawk are discussing guidelines for public use of CSL's in the Littleton and surrounding M...
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Sunday, January 14, 2024

Mystery Dots in the Desert -Coyote Spring, NV

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If I told you these white "dots" are man-made, would you believe me? They look like a source of infinite, interesting speculation....
Tuesday, January 09, 2024

Animal Head Boulder

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[Jeff from RI writes:]  I know of many sites that are not mentioned anywhere else.   Wanted to share this photo with you, its uncanny resemb...
Sunday, January 07, 2024

Circular Ditch-and-Mound in the land of Nashoba

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 [Dan Boudillion writes:] Do you recall the earthen circles Mavor-Dix reported at the Boxborough esker? I found something like that a few mi...
Saturday, January 06, 2024

Pattern recognition till I am blue in the face

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Looking at satellite views of the desert on Google Earth is addictive behavior and turns up one puzzling pattern after another. I am going t...

Colors of Nevada

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 Good lord this place is colorful! [Beaver Peak] Here is another  (Fire Mountain, AZ). What a place.
Thursday, January 04, 2024

Discovering hunting sites in southern Nevada

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Frustrated to be stuck at home, I have taken to exploring via Google Earth, and leveraging the fact that debris from stone tool making (...
Tuesday, January 02, 2024

Producing YouTube videos.

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I have been making videos (mostly about Nevada archaeology) on my YouTube channel: Peter Waksman - YouTube One of my videos got 14K views an...
Monday, January 01, 2024

Small stone circles with standing stone center

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[Norman Muller writes about this pos t]  I saw the video clip you posted of "Mysterious Rock Structures in Great Smoky Mts. NP" an...
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...