Monday, October 06, 2025

Evaluations of Stonework (New England)

 

CSLs:

"Evaluations of máunumúetash* by parties who do not test their hypotheses against Northeast Algonquian cosmology and rituals are doing, at best, only half an investigation..."


*(Máunumúet(ash) - place(s) of ceremonial gathering (ehenda mawewink, Lënapeuw, mawighunk, Mahhekanneuw). Themes of connectedness, reciprocity, prayerfulness and continuity are expressed through máunumúetash.) 

Nohham Rolf Cachat-Schilling - The Bulletin of Society for Connecticut Archaeology (2018)
https://www.academia.edu/40876479/SCASubmission

 

(Longer than wide “stone wall/fence-like”) Rows of Culturally Stacked or Laid Stones:

“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,” remarked Sherlock Stones to his associate, famed Rocket Surgeon John Possum..."

 

 


 https://www.ethicarch.org/post/understanding-stone-prayers-in-the-northeasterncultural