Small Children , Small Stone Prayers, Small Turtle Effigies (CT)

 By the Old Chickenyard (Nonnewaug)

“Historically, archaeologists have devoted few resources to understanding the social roles and activities of children...Lucy (2005) attributes part of the problem to the unwillingness of many archaeologists to include children in their interpretations unless there is direct evidence, usually mortuary, of a child's presence…" From: Playing with method: testing one approach towards identifying the places of past children -Mackenzie Cory (2020)

Above: The decaying coop, farm junk, and snow, covering low cairn-like Káhtôquwukansh or "Stone Prayers..."

Turtle Effigy 2 - capturing the conditions in which it was first observed as a turtle effigy in the winter of 1996/1997. I was collecting kindling at the time...

A snowless view of the Turtle Effigy 2...

A leaf-less view a little south of Turtle 2...

Child's Tûnuppusuonk? - "small stones turtle?"

The Small Turtle is facing the South East...

Perhaps a bit disturbed, a shell with a "nuchal notch" and maybe a foreleg, maybe a head...

Pegmatite head revealed in the other type of stone - perhaps an older child's creation?

I don't know how someone would know there would be a turtle head inside a turtle egg-like stone...

Another small stone turtle, in another nearby "Stone Prayer" or Káhtôquwuk...

"Playing with method: testing one approach towards identifying the places of past children"

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 December 2020

Mackenzie Cory

 

  https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/evolutionary-human-sciences/article/playing-with-method-testing-one-approach-towards-identifying-the-places-of-past-children/D4DCE4B5611246D989A67408CA82EEE3