Say what you will about social media – I've heard it described as "a great time waster" that enables you to see what people are having for dinner or view the latest portrait
of their cat (or pit-bull) – but I know what it is really about: Photos of
Stones from All Over the Place from People You Will Probably Never Meet in
Person.
I may never meet Larry from Minnesota, but he’s an
electronic friend of mine and I’m always happy to hear from him because he
sends me links to things that have to do with Stones.
I suspect that since Larry is from Minnesota, he might think
a ten or twelve hour drive is no big deal since every place in Minnesota is a
ten or twelve hour drive from any other place, so this morning he let me know
that there is an interesting event taking place in my neck of the woods, sponsored
by the Newfoundland and Labrador Archaeological Society:
Well maybe, now
that I think of it, that “Curious Stone Features” part may be what Larry was
thinking of, as he is well aware of my interest in Stone Features. I just
couldn’t help making a Minnesota joke and I know Larry has a great sense of
humor and enjoys a good joke.
And of course I
just had to jump into that page, being curious about stone features.
So here’s the photo
that “got me,” under a heading that said, “The Wild Archaeology team at the
Double Mer site with Dr. Lisa Rankin { http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~lrankin/index.html
} on the coast of Labrador close to the lovely town of Rigolet...what a magical
place, wonderful people, and exciting site...”
And I think I see a zigzag row of stones –
although the possibility exists that the excavators are just piling them up
after the fact. But then I see there may be a sort of pavement of flat stones,
as if it were a well-established path perhaps. I have had a long life-time
experience of being curious about zigzag rows of stones, roughly divided into
two halves, The first part was all about learning what other people said about
zigzag stone walls or fences while the second half has been all about a closer
observation of these (and other) stone walls and unlearning what everybody else
has said.
So of course I comment: “A zigzag
row of stones in the fore ground? And a sort of paved pathway/pavement?? We
should talk...http://wakinguponturtleisland.blogspot.com/search?q=zigzag”
And I delve into a
few links, seeing what else is there, where the place is etc.
I visit Wild Archaeology
and another place too, lifting images for this post:
“There was quite an intense fire here or at least one which
was kept burning for a while. The sand underneath was hard and cemented and
there was lots of ash and charcoal. The split quartzite cobble on the right had
become cloudy on the outside probably from being in the fire. The greenish rock
in between had also been exposed to serious heat and become fire cracked. It
fell apart on being moved. The flat rock on the left was either a platter rock
for cooking or an anvil rock for resting large pieces of quartzite upon for
breaking or perhaps it was used for both purposes. There were lots of quartzite
flakes nearby from tool making work. — at Somewhere in Sheshatshit.”
Looking around I find more photos of:
“A small site in Sheshatshit destined to be a housing lot
and excavated in July 2015. It sits at an elevation of about 10 meters above
sea level and likely dates to around 1800 years ago or about 200 AD. It was
discovered during test pitting done last year. Unlike most older sites in
Sheshatshit, particularly the Uatshatshish ones at FjCa 51, the lithic raw
material used for tool making was very nearly exclusively quartzite and most of
that of a honey colored variety with a pebbly texture. Of the thousands of
flakes scattered about the site there were only two tiny flakes of beige to
pink chert…”
Who can resist looking up a funny name (especially if you are in Second Grade) like Sheshatshit?
Sheshatshiu (From
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
This article
is about the town. For the ethnic group, see Sheshatshiu Innu First Nation.
Sheshatshiu (Innu pronunciation: [ʃehatʃju])[1] is
an Innu Federal
Reserve in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, located
approximately 30 kilometres north of Goose Bay. (Some references may spell the
community's name as Sheshatshit — the t spelling is more
traditional in the Innu-aimun language, but the u is
used more commonly in English to avoid inappropriate connotations. The name
means "a narrow place in the river".)
The community is
inhabited by the Sheshatshiu Innu First Nation, whose
current chief is Andrew Penashue.[2]
And then, as an afterthought, I go back to look at the
Waking Up on Turtle Island links I sent, just to see if I’ve included something
that will definitely prove I’m quite Loopy, and find this old post: http://wakinguponturtleisland.blogspot.com/2007/06/100-year-flood.html
And I click on the link at the end that takes me to the
place I lifted that photo from, 100 Year Flood, and find I forgot to include (or couldn't steal back in 2007) an even better “curious
stone feature” image, which really isn’t all that curious to anyone who knows about irrigation in the SW and amazingly similar to a thing or two I've come across here and there:
And the big bonus is, I can find yet another version of this
report, with some really great “stone feature” photos at that Academia web site
I like so much: https://www.academia.edu/8410164/Prehistoric_Agriculture_and_Settlement_in_Lefthand_Canyon_Safford_Valley_Southeastern_Arizona
There’s even a Rock
Pile or two I can pass along to PWAX:
Some more good ones:
(Color Photo of the one I originally stole to use in 2007)
And here's a pit-bull:
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