“Evaluations of qusuqaniyutôkansh (“stone walls”) by parties who do not test their hypotheses against Northeast Algonquian cosmology, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and Rituals of Renewal on Ceremonial Stone Landscapes are doing, at best, only 3% of an investigation.” - Sherlock Stones
Ceremonial Stone Landscape features are briefly discussed on some recent video from the Park.
https://www.nps.gov/wefa/learn/photosmultimedia/virtual-tours.htm
However, I'm not sure they are being correctly identified, investigated, or preserved at Weir Farm...
Part of the problem is the rebuilding of the "stone walls" which has a long history at the Weir Farm, rather than the conservation of the original "stone walls:"
Need a good author to get the conversation started, who can write about the differences between NA stone walls and the repeated "Stone Wall Mythology" of our modern times.
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