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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.

Friday, July 26, 2024

Prayers in Stone Project

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  Prayers In Stone Project Native Sites Stewardship Program Founded 2024 Sagamore Strong Bear Medicine & D.V.Boudillion How do you k...
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Tuesday, July 23, 2024

"Yellowstone Indian Remains" (Stone Cultural features)

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 Searching to update a dead link on an old post (as I sometimes do), I came across some interesting images of some stone cultural features a...
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Monday, July 15, 2024

Ancient Hunting Walls in the Colorado Mountains

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I was struck by the feature of a "seat" at the end of a wall. Here, the "seat" is where the hunters waited in hiding. We...
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11th Pocumtuck Homelands Festival

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Sunday, July 14, 2024

NEARA republished my old book on Rock Piles

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I am glad this is now available again. Larry Harrop had hosted it and Walter VanRoggen has managed to rescue the book from Larry's data....
Monday, July 08, 2024

Upcoming Nashoba Events

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Nashobah History Talk (Bear & Dan) September 17, 7:00 pm Acton, Church of the Good Shepard Sponsored by the SVT Sacred Stones Talk (Bear...
Thursday, June 20, 2024

Ahh to be young again

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  Rock Piles: "Peter is excited"
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A rock pile found in an imminently threatened site for clearcutting

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 Reader Nathan P. writes: Dear Contributors, I am writing after having discovered with a couple of friends a rock pile that is in a site tha...
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Friday, June 07, 2024

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 Reader Nicholas P. writes (about the Westminster area): The walls I have followed all over the area, and they are some of the most erratic ...
Thursday, June 06, 2024

A mysterious place with stacked rocks I found doesn't make sense

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  A mysterious place with stacked rocks I found doesn't make sense (youtube.com) Metal detecting around a rock pile.

Some Maps and Drawings

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  This map caught my eye, got me thinking... It got me thinking of a map from Charles C. Mann's "1493"  and a map in Curtiss H...
Friday, May 24, 2024

Nantucket Arrowheads

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A nice evocative aritcle: Finding History - Nantucket Today (nantucketmag.com)
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Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Two Native ceremonial stone structures in Littleton destroyed by vandals

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From Dan Boudillion: Dear Friends of the Nashobah Praying Indians,   I’m sad to report that two of the Native Ceremonial Stone Structures at...
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A couple arrowheads from Rehoboth, MA

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Did I mention: Argillite Dalton - How about that! (youtube.com) Quartzite Dalton (youtube.com) Update:  Also:
Tuesday, May 14, 2024

A walk around Washburn Island

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Washburn island is an island in Waquoit Bay in Eastern Falmouth, MA. I am privileged to have a young friend with a row-boat on Waquoit Bay, ...
Friday, May 10, 2024

Oh Boy! Fresh Dirt!

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 The season beings.
Saturday, May 04, 2024

Cuyahoga Valley Rock Piles

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Cuyahoga Valley INDIAN Burial Mounds Part 2 [Tinkers Creek] [Stone Tools] [Cleveland Indians] (youtube.com)
Thursday, May 02, 2024

South End of the Big Lake (CT)

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  I caught a glimpse of a gap in some stonework as I turned onto the highway north,  by the south end of the Big Lake. An interesting segmen...
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Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Unusual rock from Tyngsboro

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(From reader Colin)
Thursday, April 18, 2024

Rock piles: Western North Carolina mountains

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Reader Alf writes: These piles are located in Western North Carolina mountains. I count 20 rock piles. 6 to 8 are still in good shape. Cove...
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