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Started on Feb. 1, 1998. Hope you will add your comments.
Peter Waksman <waksman@tiac.net>
MA USA - Sunday, February 01, 1998 at 19:58:09 (EST)

Whoa awesome rocks man!
Mike Hirst <mhirst@xionics.com>
USA - Tuesday, February 03, 1998 at 14:58:42 (EST)

The new photos of objects in the field add richness. Its too bad the photo of the arrow on Nagog Hill Rd. isn't clearer. In the field one can see that it is a deliberately made arrow.
Karle <redhawksa@aol.com>
USA - Wednesday, February 25, 1998 at 17:55:25 (EST)

A thoroughly enjoyable site. The descriptions and images were most informative.I will visit again.
Allen Ruster
MA USA - Friday, June 12, 1998 at 14:39:45 (EDT)

You boys obviously appreciate the finer points. RSVP.
Java Man <tjessup@ibm.net>
J Indonesia - Tuesday, June 23, 1998 at 19:07:13 (EDT)

Love the sacred sites! Too many manitous? Mais non,tu vu [too few].
Manny Twoshoes
Java - Saturday, July 04, 1998 at 00:48:03 (EDT)

Good job, Peter and George! Concord should give you a medal!
Barry Brent <barryb@primenet.com>
MN USA - Monday, July 06, 1998 at 15:09:19 (EDT)

I found what appears to be s piece of a stone bowl.
It's about a 5 inch fragment. So far I haven't been
to find anyone who can identify it. Any ideas?

Jayne <ink1@n-connect.net>
USA - Monday, July 06, 1998 at 16:36:31 (EDT)

A well constructed and interesting site. A criticism and a comment: I don't like your distinction between "exotic" and "crude" . This seems very subjective: who is not to say that a simple flake is not a very efficient tool that was exactly what was required at the moment? Does this justify a negative contrast with tools whose social and functional roles might have been entirely different?
Also, your "Oldowan chopper" is a type that occurs in many parts of the world. For example, similar cores/tools occur on the north coast of NSW concurrently with blade and flake industries.
Alice Gorman <agorman@metz.une.edu.au>
Australia - Wednesday, July 15, 1998 at 00:16:37 (EDT)

I have found a stone in Chelmsford,MA about 7 inches long and about 5-8Ibs.
It fits in my hand very comfortably in two ways and has
some very sharp edges. It almost looks like a fin. I have no
knowledge in this field. But I some digital photos I would
love to email someone who is interested in looking at it and
tell me any details they know.

Thanks in advance
Gary

Gary Drake <gdrake@baynetworks.com>
MA USA - Thursday, July 16, 1998 at 13:35:39 (EDT)

back from chaco canyon and mesa verde.
wow!
karle
USA - Sunday, July 19, 1998 at 21:57:53 (EDT)

Haven't really had time to completely review your page. I am saving it to disk for future reference; however, from my short cruising it appears as a valuable source of information.

I'll comment later after reviewing more.
Robert L. Hafry <hafeyrobertlouis@hotmail.com>
AZ USA - Saturday, August 01, 1998 at 22:03:12 (EDT)

Any work on this subject deserves some kudos. Nice pictures.
Hardy <hdoth@aol.com>
CA USA - Wednesday, August 26, 1998 at 01:49:37 (EDT)

NEED MORE STUFF!
George Roberts <jenifer@telepex.com>
MS USA - Saturday, September 12, 1998 at 22:09:16 (EDT)

ULTRA MEGA COOL SITE! See ya in PHX
Tom Dodge <tbladodg@neta.com>
AZ USA - Saturday, October 10, 1998 at 02:15:05 (EDT)

I found a stone like a head of a snacke. The stone has a hole, where a snacke has her eys.The stone is 4 cm long and 3 cm bright. In austria nobody can´t help me, so i hope of a tip
thank´s
Thomas
Thomas Pohoralek <pohoralek@compuserve.com>
A Österreich - Saturday, October 10, 1998 at 15:44:56 (EDT)

FANTASTIC! I'm amased - my intresset began with Thoreau which I read first time as a teenager (Walden) and then I read and reread Walden,CapCod aso.It's a little hard to get books and other writings here in Sweden but with www I get everything and more I want to know! And it is so nice to read more about your history too.My dream is that I one day can visit Walden, Concord myself. This summer my eldest son was there with his family so I got some nice pictures of him.
Ingrid Wikberg <ingrid.wikberg@hornstull.stockholm.se>
sweden - Tuesday, October 13, 1998 at 10:22:28 (EDT)

Very Good !
Yadira Barreto <Yandrews59@hotmail.com>
San Juan, PR USA - Tuesday, November 03, 1998 at 09:49:32 (EST)

Great site.
I love this stuff.

Lewis Hosier <lewish9@home.com>
CT USA - Thursday, November 26, 1998 at 12:19:52 (EST)

Enjoyed your site alot.
Mark Hart <ttthart@kellnet.com>
Oh USA - Tuesday, December 01, 1998 at 09:47:54 (EST)

I loved perusing your site. I have great interest in Indian artifacts. Interesting pages...

Joel D. Kinard <jdkinard@hotmail.com>
NC USA - Friday, December 04, 1998 at 20:04:21 (EST)

Fascinating stuff. Originally from Ma. I was intrigued.
Wish I'd been more aware when slogging through the Westwood hills.
Tom Gillooly <TGillooly@aol.com>
wa USA - Tuesday, December 08, 1998 at 00:47:00 (EST)

Hi, Peter, just mosing around your sites. Greetings to Barbara. And a hug from Byron and Mary Lou.
Byron & Chankey <chantou@juno.com>
USA - Wednesday, January 20, 1999 at 21:05:03 (EST)

The walls, basins, embrasures, look like the ones here in
No. Calif.
J. Van Horn <jvh@nature.berkeley.edu>
CA USA - Thursday, February 04, 1999 at 19:41:33 (EST)

Loved your site and really loved the info on Arizona. Living
in northern Arizona I see many of the same type of artifacts everytime we hike. Thanks for the site.
Pat
Az USA - Thursday, February 11, 1999 at 06:46:34 (EST)

Some of your pieces aren't artifacts (like the granite 'axe' from the construction site that was in a pile of similar rocks) and a lot of other things you show. Also, you shouldn't make up names for things that aren't artifacts (like the eggdrop knives). All those are are 'geofacts', but I call them "Leaverites" as in "leave er right there, cause it ain't nothin!'" :)
You live in a bad part of the country for surface-hunting and your over zealousness has caused you to mis-identify a _lot_ of pieces. Good luck!
Joe Alexander
Fla USA - Friday, February 12, 1999 at 11:30:44 (EST)

I liked it but to tell you the truthI was looking for things about spears and clay pots and could not find them
Anna
NJ USA - Wednesday, February 17, 1999 at 16:25:56 (EST)

thankyou... your information was very powerful..
a picture is worth a thousand words!
Dennis Kane <dkck@buffalocity.net>
N.D. USA - Tuesday, March 09, 1999 at 22:15:14 (EST)

great clarity and well designed site
joy <joyjoyg@worldnet.att.net>
ca USA - Thursday, March 18, 1999 at 02:01:37 (EST)

Great site guys, although it would be nice if it contained more pictures. I have been collecting for the past several years and have a large amount of tools that I have been unable to identify with any specifity. I have several books to use as identification guides, however, none indiginous to my area. If you have any suggestions for books or reference material related to Idaho artifacts, please let me know. Meanwhile, add more pictures..........please. Hope to hear from you.....
Leslie Turner <rostur@worldnet.att.net>
ID USA - Thursday, March 25, 1999 at 10:03:34 (EST)

I enjoyed your site very much.
Crystal <mercers@accessus.net>
IL USA - Friday, April 02, 1999 at 12:40:00 (EST)

collecting same COCISE CULTURE 10000-6000 INJOYed the desert culture have large collection say hi www.klk@theriver.com
john sukosky
az USA - Sunday, May 16, 1999 at 07:18:41 (EDT)

I am the son of the late Mark Strohmeyer. I would just like to correct you in saying he was from Watertown, not Arlington. The work that my Father did was very important to the present effort in conserving these sacred sites. He taught me most of what he knew and understood, and also left a lot of work for me to complete. If you have any questions or new issues to discuss, reach me at: Andres Strohmeyer, 60 Union Ave, Jamaica Plain, Ma 02130
Andres Strohmeyer
Ma USA - Wednesday, June 02, 1999 at 11:41:55 (EDT)

Great site!!! I ended up reading and studying every page. I will be checking back, but, if possible, would like a notice when it is updated.
David Murphree <icon@bloomington.in.us>
USA - Sunday, August 01, 1999 at 07:37:14 (EDT)

Nice job with the web site, Peter. Just returned from your part of Massachusetts, and am checking for information on lithic sites around the Middlesex /Essex County area. No time to stop this trip around, but did visit another site you might have heard of: America's Stonehenge.
Jim <BerkMtnMan@aol.com>
MA USA - Friday, August 06, 1999 at 14:37:58 (EDT)

some nice artifacts. lot's of rocks (non artifacts, it's funny how the mists of time obscure our memory and how hard we sometimes try to create something out of plain old new england stones......
thanks for stressing that even collecting must be done discreetly and digging is bad.
condor
maine USA - Tuesday, August 17, 1999 at 13:46:56 (EDT)

Great site..enjoyed it. I live on a pond in Plymouth, MA I have found some interesting things..most remarkable to me..a stone pendant in the in the shape of a dog's head, with a hole drilled in it, for hanging around the neck, i guess.
Don Fultz <dfultz2000@aol.com>
ma USA - Tuesday, August 17, 1999 at 21:35:13 (EDT)

Hello, just came across this site this morning (8/22/99) Found it to be very informative. Good pictures. To expand info to other New England areas? I'd like to do some trades with other amat. arch. in New England. I have fossils (some rare), meteorites, and stone relics from many other areas, also Calusa Indian 2-hole drilled club from Fla. Would be interested in used books on relics and dig sites in New Eng. also esp. if have good photos, also old arch. journals. Hope to hear from other interested persons. I'm a member of Dr. Gramly's Amer. Soc. for Amateur Arch. Write me at 7 Smokey Ridge Rd. Ringwood, N.J. 07456-1901 Ken or E-mail me indian_dad@yahoo.com
Thanks! Would like sharing info and hearing from any of you. I'll be up to New Eng. this week or next. Hear soon!!!!!!!!
Ken <indian_dad@yahoo.com>
N.J. USA - Sunday, August 22, 1999 at 10:35:20 (EDT)

Interesting and well done. Cannot absorb all in one sitting. Will be back. There is a lot to see in New England woods as well as unlikely pockets once you develop an "eye". Thanks a lot.
Kevin McCarthy <a3212@gateway.net>
RI USA - Friday, November 05, 1999 at 19:17:43 (EST)

great site! i found the number of pictures and amount of text to be well balanced and very informative...keep up the good work!!
ben <enloofus05@aol.com>
WI USA - Tuesday, December 07, 1999 at 00:37:18 (EST)

You are a goof. Ogham (not Oggam) in North America? Only Celts wrote in Ogham.

Joe Storch
Ireland - Sunday, January 16, 2000 at 16:29:41 (EST)

I found a stone like a head of a snacke. The stone has a hole, where a snacke has her eys.The stone is 4 cm long and 3 cm bright. In austria nobody can´t help me, so i hope of a tip
thank´s
Thomas

Dr. com. Thomas Pohoralek <pohoralek@surfeu.at>
A Österreich - Monday, January 31, 2000 at 15:01:17 (EST)

Peter- Great site! Sorry I've been out of the loop lately. Happy New Year a little late! Love my snowy picture over at the NEARA site too. I have a friend who has some sort of chert hand ax from Plymouth, MA. Very primitive looking. We need to get together in March or something. Take care and keep up the great work...
Derek Gunn <DerekG7691@AOL.com>
USA - Wednesday, February 02, 2000 at 17:17:06 (EST)

Great idea to create an awareness of what is under our feet
and may be lost if it isn't recorded. It is also great to
get reactions from people from overseas--perhaps from
places that may have had contact.

Tim Fohl <tfohl@world.std.com>
MA USA - Friday, February 11, 2000 at 14:55:05 (EST)

This is an amazing site. I would like to learn more.This area is threatened environmentally and you can find out more at saveourheritage.com .This reveals to me that the whole area is a historical treasure and needs to be protected.Who knows what else could be found there.It would be terrible to see this destroyed.
Speppera <pepperens@usa.net>
MA USA - Wednesday, March 08, 2000 at 08:20:19 (EST)

sometime ill shut up and you tell me what you know. love reading your stuff. jic.
jicdco@aol <jicdco@aol.com>
ma USA - Friday, March 10, 2000 at 17:34:25 (EST)

Interesting!
D. House <dehouse@nnm.cc.nm.us>
NM USA - Saturday, April 08, 2000 at 16:12:52 (EDT)

Thank you Dr. Waksman for a thouroughly delightful
look at Concord rocks.

david larson <larsobanes@aol.com>
USA - Saturday, April 22, 2000 at 14:17:08 (EDT)

any info on California stone tools?
Bobi Quinlan <bobwire@onemain.com>
CA USA - Friday, May 05, 2000 at 08:13:03 (EDT)

I am a local collector living in central Mass. and have enjoyed your site. I will be back to visit your site from time to time.
Don <bcdc1982@samnet.net>
Ma USA - Wednesday, June 14, 2000 at 02:50:59 (EDT)

Being from the Paficic Northwest it was informative. I doubt I would ever be able to see such sites in the east, it was nice to see them on you web page. I am an amatuer arch. for my tribe (yakama) and we preserve and protect sites. It is our belief and policy to preserve and protect at the site, we do not take artifacts from their place. It is interesting to read some of the comments of people who think it is a way of preserving the past. I don't understand that concept. If someone can explain it more to me that would be very informative for me.
stacie <staciemesplie@yahoo.com>
WA USA - Friday, September 29, 2000 at 12:49:41 (EDT)

congratulations!!!!
marcial marco <marcosaura@terra.es>
teruel spain - Saturday, November 18, 2000 at 13:25:21 (EST)

A very nice site, I was looking for some recent uses of stone tools for a seminar I am doing. Can anybody help
Pat Latchford <Pat.Latchford@tesco.net>
United Kingdom - Thursday, November 23, 2000 at 12:24:39 (EST)

well done
Aaron Ziemann <ziemanna@hotmail.com>
nj USA - Wednesday, December 06, 2000 at 11:27:16 (EST)

Thanks for confirming that what I have been collecting from
my own back yard are truly indian artifacts. I have been told by a geologist, my son, that they are "just rocks"...
How marvelous that we are privledged to see the remnants of
these ancient civilations! Some of my "finds" are almost
identical to your pictures. THANK YOU. 1-21-01...

M. Artz <ereardon@cybersurfers.net>
ca USA - Sunday, January 21, 2001 at 21:21:09 (EST)

Enjoyed my visit to your site.Will check back for updates.Happy Hunting
Ken <beermaker30@hotmail.com>
OK USA - Wednesday, January 24, 2001 at 13:11:38 (EST)

It is very attractive site. I will visit it once more to read all details.
Best wishes,
Byron's cousin who arrived from Russia recently and living in Luba's famili in Lexington.
Leonid Mitnik <leonid_mitnik@hotmail.com>
MA USA - Wednesday, January 31, 2001 at 22:35:50 (EST)

Good job with your site. Just passing thru, will have to look more closely later. I'm an amateaur enthusiest just searching for resources and so glad to find a local reference as I'm in Mass. as well. Always great fun searching!!! Wondering if you know of any sites that go into detail of the various stone materials found in Mass.?(pictures,descriptions,names etc.) I know what to look for just don't know thier names or origins(except some flints) Finding quite a bit of local material as well. Any assistance would be helpful. Keep up the good work!
D.J. <fernitters@rcn.com>
MA USA - Saturday, February 10, 2001 at 11:50:24 (EST)

MY FIRST VISIT, ENJOYED IT. WILL RETURN
AL <ALDOWNS@TVA>GOV>
KY USA - Sunday, April 08, 2001 at 12:59:07 (EDT)

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Poseidon
Macedonia Greece - Thursday, May 17, 2001 at 16:15:53 (EDT)

There is an article on stone arrangements in the Negev and
Sinai Deserts in the Biblical Archaeology Review,
May/June 2001. Good stuff!
Tim Fohl <tfohl@tigco.com>
MA USA - Wednesday, May 23, 2001 at 14:33:00 (EDT)

Good site...I have many of the same types of points and tools that you have on your site. Some I found in my back yard.
Bob Stoeckel <rstoeckel@peoplepc.com>
NJ USA - Sunday, June 17, 2001 at 23:09:42 (EDT)

Nice Site! I visit often to look for your latest"find" updates. I have been hunting/collecting in the Concord area
for some time. Have a small collection of points that I've found and some nice inherited pieces. Keep up the good work!
Steve <Tootall366@aol.com>
Ma USA - Wednesday, July 18, 2001 at 23:19:42 (EDT)

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