Celestial Alignments and Embanked Enclosures in Indiana’s Mounds State Park
What little we know about the Adena and Hopewell indigenous cultures of the pre-contact North American Midwest we have gleaned from what remains of their many mounds and earthworks. There is still much to be learned. …
Settlers Turned Burial Mounds Into Their Own Cemetery In Piketon, Ohio
As we enjoy the spooky season, a look at one of my eerier Mound visits this year — to the Mounds of Mound Cemetery in Piketon, Ohio, near the Scioto River.
Witness History Rewritten at Meadowcroft Rockshelter
Recently, 21- to 23-thousand-year-old footprints discovered in New Mexico reignited the dogmatic debate in archaeology over when the first humans arrived in North America. (See Science: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abg7586).
Evidence overturning traditional theories has been piling up for about fifty years. But some old archaeologists stubbornly cling to earlier interpretations with a…
Exploring the World’s Largest Serpent Effigy — in Ohio
There is a Serpent upon the hill.
The Stone Effigy Rows and Manitou Hassanash (Cairns) of Lewis Hollow
As above, so below?
In Lewis Hollow, on Overlook Mountain in Woodstock, New York, intriguing stone features rise up with the ridge. Built over areas of high groundwater permeability, some of the stone assemblages may create a petraform mirroring a constellation in the sky above. …
Thousands of Books Will No Longer Be On Sale
On Thursday, Amazon notified thousands of indie creators they’d have to republish their books if they still want them available for sale after September 15th, as it abandons its ComiXology Submit Indie program while it folds ComiXology into Kindle. …
“One of the best kept secrets in American history…”
The fifth largest pyramid in the world…
The largest earthwork in North America…
Like Stonehenge and the Pyramids of Giza, this has been designated a World Heritage Site by the UN.
It’s also a National Historic Landmark.
Possible Repercussions From a 19th Century Clergyman’s Folly
Did desecration doom two schools? Do we still experience negative reverberations from a 19th century Christian clergyman’s destruction of a possible sacred stone site?
Science Can Be Beautiful
Some 440 Million years ago in what would later become Vermont, the land form including future New Hampshire and Maine came slamming in, pushing up the Green Mountains in what’s known as the Taconic Orogeny.
