Meanwhile, on Turtle Island, an obvious answer to the "Is it field clearing, stone stockpiling or an Indigenous/Native American Cultural Icon?" quietly asserts itself:
The original photo is from an old post:
Originally lifted from here:
Like this one:
Coiled Rattlesnakes?
Formerly a Coiled Rattlesnake??
An Old Story:
Not quite as old story:
"Deshong Crossing (a housing development) would not be the first to vanish under a bulldozer. Garrow estimates that 80 percent of all metro Atlanta sites have been lost to development. Many developers neglect to mention the discovery of artifacts in order to avoid a land survey, Chase says.
"People are unaware that there are so many sites being destroyed," he says. "And there is not much willingness for developers to cooperate, to the point of contractors becoming secretive about it when they find things."
But secrecy alone is no crime. Developers who come across artifacts they suspect may be of historical value are only required to halt clearing and construction when working under federal permit or funding, or unless they encounter human remains. According to the Georgia Abandoned Cemeteries and Burial Grounds Act of 1991, no known cemetery, burial ground, human remains or burial object must be disturbed. Under that law, development must stop until a genealogical survey has been conducted and a permit applied for in order to move the remains — at the property owner's cost.
Summertown residents hoping to invoke the law focused a last-ditch effort on what they believe are Native American burial mounds on the Deshong Crossing property.
But Garrow's survey concluded that the rock piles in question likely were placed there by farmers. While Rutherford acknowledges there are more recent rock piles on the property, she questions whether the survey even reviewed the spots neighbors believe to be burial mounds.
"There is a stone mound 10 meters long by 5 meters wide and 1-1/2 meters high back there, and it is situated up on a slope. I don't believe a farmer would go to that extent to move a pile of stones, and set them in such a perfect oval shape. We have asked the developer permission to hire and send in an independent archaeologist to do a survey, but were told no," she says..."
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