Stone Structures & Rock Art

Topics

• Chambers
• Standing Stones
• Perched Rocks
• Stone Piles, Stacks, and Platforms
• Seats, Circles, and Rows
• Rock Art: Petroglyphs and Pictographs

Examples

See the Gallery and one Categorization.

Articles

• Some Balanced Rocks Across Massachusetts, Jim Moore
• Analysis of Some Horseshoe or U-Shaped Stone Structures, Edwin C. Ballard
• Who Cleft the Devil's Foot, Charles F. Herberger
• Did Glooskap Kill the Dragon on the Kennebec?, Roslyn Strong
• Epigraphy, James L. Guthrie
• Faces a Riddle Written in Stone, Adam Gorlick
• Tripod Rock, Edward Bochnak

Articles by Norman Muller

All images used in these articles (unless noted otherwise) are the property of Norman Muller and cannot be used without prior permission. Contact Norman Muller at nemuller5@gmail.com

• Norman Muller: Seeing Stonework through an Art Conservator's Eye NEARA Journal vol 55.2; interview, November 10, 2018
• A Historical Analysis of the Smith Farm and Stone Mounds, Rochester, Vermont NEARA Journal vol 44.2
• A Possible Indian Rock Shelter Shrine at Nashoba
• Accenting the Landscape: Interpreting the Oley Hills Site
• An Unusual Crescent-Shaped Cairn and the Significance of Quartz at Smith Farm
• An Unusual Ledge Outcrop in Hopkinton, Rhode Island
• Delaware Water Gap
• Early Stone Cairns and Rows in Eastern Pennsylvania
• Fahnestock Memorial State Park
• Glastenbury Mountain Cairn Site, NEARA Journal vol 43.2
• Glenford Stone "Fort", NEARA Journal vol 44.1
• Manitou Stones in Rochester, Vermont
• Row-Linked Boulder Site, Oley Hills, Pennsylvania
• Site R7-2, Rochester, Vermont
• Stockbridge, Vermont, Cairn Site
• Stone Mound Investigations as of 2009 NEARA Journal vol 43.1
• Stone Rows & Boulders: A Comparative Study
• Terraced Boulder Site, Oley Hills, Pennsylvania
• The Cairns in Our Midst: Historic or Prehistoric? NEARA Journal vol 37.2
• The Montville Souterrain Reconsidered NEARA Journal vol 41.2
• The Stone "Fort" at Lochmere, New Hampshire: A History, NEARA Journal vol 49.1
• Vermont Platform Cairns

Migration & Culture

Topics

• The First Americans
• Across the Pacific
• The North Atlantic Rim
• The Classical World
• Irish Monks and Renegade Vikings
• Fish, Furs, and Fortune
• Red Paint People
• Eastern Woodland Indians

Articles

• The Ordering of Towns, H. Morse Payne
• Ancient Pemaquid and the Skeleton in Armor, W. Mead Stapler
• Carterfacts, George Carter
• Clovis and Beyond, Ann Humphrey
• Types of Cultural Diffusion, Roger Williams Wescott
• The First Americans, Donald Gilmore
• North Atlantic Rim: Barrier or Bridge?, Suzanne O. Carlson
• The Quest for the Northwest Passage, Suzanne O. Carlson
• Pre-Columbian Transoceanic Contacts, Stephen C. Jett
• The Pre-Columbian Lacquer of West Mexico, Celia Heil

Sciences & Language

Topics

• Archaeology and Anthropology
• Archaeoastronomy
• Epigraphy
• Language

Articles

• Hammonasset Solstice Alignment Part 1, C. Thomas Paul
• Hammonasset Solstice Alignment Part 2, C. Thomas Paul
• Above Surface Stone Constructs in a Northeastern Native American Ceremonial Landscape, Edwin C. Ballard & James W. Mavor, Jr
• New Astronomical Alignments in the Northeast, Edwin C. Ballard & James W. Mavor, Jr
• A Midsummer Sunbeam Site in New England, Fred W. Martin & Elizabeth F. Martin
• Archaeo-astronomical Prospecting at the Moose Hill Stone Chambers, Frederick W. Martin & Elizabeth F. Martin, Polly Midgley, and Walter Wheeler