Presentations from New England Antiquities Research Association (NEARA) conferences and webinars about lithic features in eastern US and Canada. neara.org
On rt 5 in west springfield and Holyoke there are mound pyramids The biggest is still there. Right behind providence hospital on the w. Springfield holyoke town line
So if ice forming then melted pushed the rock to where they are. And the glacial river flows through it. There should be river beds on every pedestal balanced stones.
17:00 Interesting that one side of a rock pile (Cairn or Prayer Stone mound) is purposely collapsed and may represent a broken egg. I have 9 such structures on my property and many BUT NOT ALL have one collapsed side - usually the north side). On another topic of the walls, with the amount of effort the walls would require to be built I have to lean toward a reason proportionate to that effort. Specifically food. With the tops looking jagged and some with widths of between 6' to 15' I know a deer would be hesitant to leap over it. It would look for an opening and go through (especially when chased) making it an easier target for a hunter with spear or arrow cocked. Same thought process for walls with undulating tops. The deer would leap over only the lower parts thus providing a specific spot for a hunter to train his bow or spear.
I'm glad you're using the term Indigenous and not Indian. Indians are from India. Anyhow, as you point out, the issue isn't if all stone structures were made by colonialists, but how to discern Indigenous structures from early European settlers. Once that is settled then the mystery of their purpose is at hand and that is where we need to be creative as well as ask members of the Indigenous community which seems to be mostly absent in almost all of these New England stone mound videos. To generate ideas on these structure's purpose we need to look no further than Maslow's Heirarchy of Needs where the most important as Physiological needs through Safety, Love and Belonging, Esteem and Self-actualisation. Aligned with those categories are (in order) rock structures to identify water, food needs (caches for protect from predators/squirrels, traps, snake attraction, grinding stones), equinox alignment for optimal timing of planting/harvesting, Safety is provided by location U shaped structure (halfway down a slope or on a plateau midway down a steep slope) for best advantage against hostilities. Love and Belonging includes connection to the deceased by way of stacked rocks to honour ancestors, Esteem - honour a leader or someone hurt in battle, then Self Actualisation through creative rock formations in the shape of snakes and turtles.
Glenn, thanks so much for this fascinating work. I understand that Draco had a place in the Dakota people's cosmogony as the Thunder Bird. Does anyone have recommendations for material about Lenape cosmogony, specifically pertaining to the Draco constellation?
Native Americans used big round millstones? Curious as to context? Didn’t they use more of a mortar and pestle type thing ? Aren’t wheels for a water or wind powered mill?
Thank you! Привет из Латвии. Спасибо, это очень интересно. Здесь тоже можно увидеть дольмены arround the World - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0SkSQNBw4q8.html
I have information about this topic that I received from the Lord Jesus Christ, I was led by the Lord to make a video about the Newport Tower, the vikings, Benedict Arnold 1st and the rune stones, which all link to Sachem Miantonomo and Sachem Uncas, watch the video until a reading of the poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and God will unravel the mystery if you have eyes to see and ears to hear. Please watch and share, God Bless You studio.ru-vid.comUB-S1rcsujc/edit
The first Governor was Benedict Arnold, Great Grandfather to the Heroic Benedict Arnold that fought in the Revolutionary War, the Arnold family members were also buried near the Windmill.
BS on the glacier theory. None of this was ground by glaciers but it was washed out by water. You always show glaciers in mountainous ranges and yes they naturally flow down hull a “steep hill” the one’s that were here We’re much further north and we’re ice caps just like in the south pole and they didn’t slide and carving out the Great Lakes they’re water did and the mud the water pushed, which is why there are huge mud Flats at the south end of Lake Michigan and Lake Erie that travel for Miles. Only one of the great lakes which is Lake Michigan and parts of Lake Huron runs north to south Lake superior lake Erie and Lake Ontario runs Parallel to the so-called glacier flow. 🤷♂️
Erosion of rock by glacier has much to do with the hardness of the rock underlying the glacier and not necessarily the direction of ice flow. often the direction of flow is highly influenced by rock type. Also the icecap in Antarctica does indeed move over the rock beneath it.
@@babzrobinson9196 I see what your saying, but as for the northern part of the Great Lakes there’s just Too much solid rock “Vertical rock“ that’s 100 feet high above the water line and drops straight off to a hundred or more feet straight down. In many places as a sheer vertical wall, And all of the stone above is mostly sandstone and like I said a lot of those places run mostly west and east. But also like I have said on other RU-vid videos/channels then what created Hudson Bay??? I believe this was all created a billion years ago and during one of the planet’s longest ice ages and it was an onset of widespread volcanoes through North America that melted a big portion of the glaciers creating an Unimaginable flood that swept from near the North Pole southeast to what we call the Great lakes starting with the West end of Lake Superior and the original flood is what created the vast flat mud planes at the south west end of Lake Erie and The enormous flatland two NW. Indiana all the way through the middle of Illinois to the Mississippi where it drained into And the Mississippi is also a product from that great flood along with the lakes that were created and north and South Dakota it is that flood that carved out The badlands. It all starts in Inuvik where are the northwest territories meet the Beaufort sea And that Flood carved it’s Way Southeast to Lake Superior and it’s Wha created all the lakes in between I like great bear lake and great slave lake in the northwest territories the net carbs out lake Athabasca that sits on the border of Alberta and Saskatchewan then you have Lake Winnipegosis and Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba from there you have Lake of the Woods that borders the US and Canada and the next top is the West end of Lake superior. So from Lake superior to the town of Inuvik that borders The Beaufort Sea you can see the clear path That the flood made because of all the lakes it created and huge lakes at that but it also created what they call the Great Basin. I also believe Hudson bay also drained into the great lakes And the only thing that stopped that was the great uplift in land from the volcanic activity and stopping Hudson Bay flow south for good and this is why all rivers now flow into Hudson Bay and mini flow in a Northern to Northeast fashion into Hudson Bay. And if you travel west through the plains states and through Saskatchewan you can see huge scars to the land some that are several hundred feet deep all created by that flood. I truly don’t believe what they call glaciers ever existed they were ice caps like I said that exist in Antarctica and in no way do they move like they tell us because if you look at a normal glacier that sits on a mountain and flows downhill it moves very slowly and that’s with gravity working in his favor. There are structures underneath the ice in an article that they are now discovering and they weren’t moved and if the ice moved as much as they said it does than their flight GPS locations for landing strips would have to change daily and as far as I can tell that’s never happened the GPS locations have always stayed the same. Oh and with most of those lakes the exception of Lake Winnipeg they mostly run east to west lake Winnipeg like Lake Michigan and a part of Lake Huron run north to south and Like I said the huge vast fertile flatlands at the south end of Lake Erie and Lake Michigan is the sediment from central Canada when the great flood occurred. And if you look from Lake superior northwest to Inuvik there are remnants of ancient volcanoes some that are still being mind to this day for gold and diamonds, it’s like a straight line of volcanoes and that’s why I say I believe when much of North America but maybe 1 billion years ago not 10,000 years ago that was Volcano irruption‘s melted everything above it creating that basin those lakes including our great lakes. Lol but hey I’m nobody just someone who has had the opportunity to travel for work on the road, but most of my hands on and visually seeing this amazing land in the US and Canada and a lot of it was also seen from the air in a float plane, is because of my hunting and fishing adventures. Thank you much for writing back, I absolutely love trouble shooting things and the more we put great minds together the we can get real answers instead of someone’s 100 year old THEORY and for some reason there theory has to be set in stone Because mostly of some kind of degree and not massive on hands and visual experience in the field that gives it credit. We have so much spot on technology guide us to the truth it’s just the timelines that are the mystery. Thank you. 👊
Native Americans could not carry such heavy stones . We need to start accepting that Giants could possibly built them . Early graves that were found were of giants .the bones were documented .. We need to start talking more about Giants and their role . Giants were in the bible and native American people talked about wars with giants .
Cool Video! Thank you for your work! Some of the locations in the Vinland Sagas we can reliably locate in the real world. For instance, Bjarni's First Land with the small hills in the Greenlanders' Saga must be Newfoundland when he sailed southwest from Iceland, with his Second Land that was flat with forests being the Labrador Peninsula. There are a bunch of good reasons to make this conclusion, like if you compare the coordinates and description in the Saga with a real world map of the North Atlantic route southwest from iceland. On the other hand, some spots like Kjalarnes (Keel Peninsula) are a bitter harder. For instance, it's clearly on the Atlantic coast and also directly south of the Labrador Peninsula, for a couple reasons, like how the Vikings got swept east from Kjalarnes to Ireland, and how they got to Kjalarnes from the Labrador Peninsula by sailing south in Eric the Red's Saga. This narrows Kja;arnes' possible spots to the north end of Newfoundland and to the north to northeast end of Cape Breton Island. I tried to lay out these coordinates here, and value your feedback: historum.com/t/where-do-the-viking-sagas-point-to-the-vikings-visiting-in-the-us-or-southeast-canada.196378/
Any info on schunnemunk Mt. I live on schunnemunk mt. In mountain Lodge park. I can literally walk or drive to the top of the schunnemunk and watch the sunset over the gunk mountains/mohonk and the Catskills. Such an incredible place to live. Any information about the particular mountain which I happen to live on would be absolutely amazing and much appreciated
I think the name is because when one looks at shawangunk mountain from far away the exposed boulders and rocks faces sometimes to give the illusion that there is smoke on the mountain or smoke coming from somewhere on the mountain
You forgot to mention the ramapough mountain Native American Tribe during the intro! I heard lenni lenape but not the former mentioned. Two of my good friends are former Chief redbone's grandsons.
After exploring the islands nearby Id say the soft soils were undermined by the tides ,dropping the peat mass with trees down into the ocean. Locals have removed the stumps to make fire piles with ,the shoreline had pyres ready to go made of the trees
Lots of claims are now being made about megalithic stone walls around the country, including, of all places, Montana. Most of these "stone walls" are actually the weathered remains of intrusive granite dykes that were deposited as molten magma below the earth's surface, which over many years eroded away to reveal the granite formations, which in turn weathered and cracked and came to resemble stone walls. I suspect the "archeologists" making claims for megalithic "sites" should talk to geologists before making fools of themselves on RU-vid.
Not true at all. Please show some respect . People have studied this for years and there are certain aspects they look for before calling it megalithic .
Well… You speak as if you are an expert. Assuming that you’re not just a disgruntled troll what exactly are your qualifications and experience in this field?
Lived in an area of intrusive granite from the Boulder Batholith in central Montana on a 4th generation family ranch while married to a geology professor at the University of Montana. Hell, just ask any geologist in the area of Butte, Montana, and they'll tell you the exact same thing I said in my comment above. Don't attack me. Go find out for yourself with some very basic research. @@csluau5913
I am finding similar stuff in SW PA. I am also a farmer and can not figure out any reason farmers would build that. I can think of half a dozen uses that a farmer might have --especially a pioneer farmer-- for that existing chamber. But I'm willing to bet the farm that the settlers did not have time to be building elaborate and unnecessary stone structures. So glad that I finally got a chance to watch these NEARA videos btw. Farming allows me all the time in the world for listening but not much for watching.
I've known about some mounds in Maine, but only after they have been dismantled and used for road and railroad construction. You give me hope that more exist that are untouched.
You would find a drive along Round Hill Road in Greenwich Connecticut very interesting, especially the serpent row which snakes out of the woods down to the road. There seems to be a petrified open book in front of his face!
All the architecture in all the cities were inherited, simply excavate the sides and you find multiple levels beneath the sedimentary layer left from Noah's flood. Everything academia teaches us is rubbish. Waters receded from north America in the last 700 years due to continental elevation.
Who has been maintaining these rock cairns since the Indians were exterminated? Even the best stone masons can't get walls and cairns to last that long in the elements.
Interesting! Some could have been dug under, props added and used as shelter for the “cave man” that had no cave. Have to think outside what we know and consider how things were before modern shelters. Then consider what animals were used, oxen… elephants and horses moved items. What animals were in these areas at that time.
This presentation is fascinating; I wish I had been able to see it in person. At one point a black and white photo is shown of a series of large mounds being excavated in Massachusetts. Does anyone know where approximately in MA the photo was taken?
Sarah Kohler, please contact the Massachusetts state geologist and ask to speak to someone about the surficial geology of the state. Many (if not all) of the features you’ve identified in the LiDAR imagery are the result of glacial activity: eskers, moraines, drumlins, dune fields, etc.
