“Spirit Stones” or
ceremonial stone groupings in English
Over the years,
approaching 27 of them, I’ve been observing stones on the landscape around my
home, in my town and well beyond that most people never give a second thought
to. “It’s just a rock,” most people say as they shake their head and move
along. I’ve had my mental health questioned, sometimes silently but also out
loud, from good natured kidding to outright derision, from family and friends
to a number of acquaintances and strangers, some of them considered
professionals, archeologists and anthropologists, stone masons and surveyors.
But still I
persist and still I search for information about stones on the landscape,
ranging from outright fictions to solid science and everywhere in between.
Sometimes I’m even pleasantly surprised to find some gratification when I find, in other peoples’ research, some verification of what I’ve been conjecturing about my observations – sometimes even wondering if I’ve influenced someone’s professional interpretations
of stones on the landscape or Ceremonial Stone Landscapes as this science is starting to be known as...
Here’s one more
that I just recently became aware of, some of what is presented leading me to
believe someone is paying attention to things I post and link to here on this
blog:
“Ceremonial Stone Landscapes of New England and Developing
Best Practices to Assess Submerged Paleocultural Landscapes” from the National
Center for Preservation Technology and Training, a division of the National
Park Service.
You can read it here:
You can watch it here:
There's another posting on the site that I think I've linked to before, entitled "Ceremonial Stone Landscapes:" https://www.ncptt.nps.gov/blog/ceremonial-stone-landscapes/
It also has a YouTube video (the source of the images above):
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