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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.

Saturday, September 27, 2025

NEARA- Fall conferences in Masschusetts

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[From Peter Anick] Dear Massachusetts chapter members,    As you have probably heard by now, the fall NEARA conference will be held in Massa...
Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Annual Friends of Pine Hawk Fall Programs begin Oct. 9

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The Friends of Pine Annual Hawk Fall Programs begin soon.  From early October through mid-November,   there are talks, walks, and a communit...
Monday, September 15, 2025

Restoring Waramaug's Monument (New Milford CT)

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New Milford and state to honor Native American chief by restoring monument at Lover’s Leap By Kaitlin Keane, Staff Writer Sep 15, 2025   NEW...
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Thursday, September 11, 2025

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 [From reader James O.] A few weeks ago I bushwhacked some distance to a relatively inaccessible ridgeline in Harvard along 495. I felt pret...
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Tuesday, September 09, 2025

Colorado Stone Walls

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I was not aware of this example: Why have people been coming up here for 4,000 years?
Sunday, September 07, 2025

Link to Pomperaug's Village (Woodbury CT)

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 Envisioning Pomperaug's Village
Sunday, August 24, 2025

In the "Long Lots" of Fairfield CT

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Above from:  The Deer Path “Stone Wall” (Weston CT) Part One https://wakinguponturtleisland.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-deer-path-stone-wall-we...
Wednesday, August 20, 2025

The idea of 1st Americans is a BAD IDEA

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I rant on YouTube: The idea of 1st Americans is a BAD IDEA
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Announcement from Mike Luoma

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Mike Luoma shares his findings from the Spring at Indian Brook Reservoir Park, Essex, Vermont, including new stone rows, a Boulder Headed Se...

Mt Elam - more from reader James O.

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Today I went out to Mt Elam, and though I was done in by the sea of mountain laurel (grade C according to your scale in “Shadow under the ro...
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Sunday, July 13, 2025

Swedes are excited to find one arrowhead

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  Crystalline arrowhead among new discoveries at Hedkammen This find would be a bad day in RI. Which highlights how there are so many more a...
Tuesday, July 01, 2025

Hubbard Hill Structure and Turtle (Concord, MA)

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[From reader James O:] After walking along them for my whole life, I began studying rock walls in earnest a few years ago. ... Today I decid...
Monday, June 30, 2025

How white guys reconstruct rock piles.

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Around 1:58 in this video it shows a "burial mound" rock pile, that was excavated and then "reconstructed".  Fort Ancien...
Thursday, June 26, 2025

Proud of my Desktop

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That is "Soutrean" blades on the top row, as well as broken bi-points and a rounded base in the second row. All from the Las Vegas...
Tuesday, June 24, 2025

I am excited about finding one arrowhead

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But unlike the Germans (of previous post) it is because I have not found one in a month. Here it is. After examination, I decided it is an a...
Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Germans are excited by finding one arrowhead

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I continue to be puzzled by the observation that Europe has almost no arrowheads. Here, a single one is considered an outstanding discovery:...
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

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 Looks like a face, looking out into the water. Seems kind of deliberate. (Woods Hole, MA in the background).
Thursday, June 05, 2025

The Fort Sage Drift Fence

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A stone wall north of Reno Nevada, somehow is date-able as 3K years old.  Question: What do they know out there that, somehow, eludes our Ne...
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

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Video here: Arrowhead in a coastal potato field
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Single shouldered ("small stemmed") Quartz Arrowhead

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A couple of videos about it: Raynham Arrowhead - a complete surprise Small Stemmed Quartz - Not all the same
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