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Stone Prayers - Native American Constructions of the Eastern Seaboard (Paperback)
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Stone Prayers - Native American Constructions of the Eastern Seaboard (Paperback)
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Scattered throughout the woodlands and fields of the eastern
seaboard of the United States and Canada are tens of thousands of
stone monuments. These stone constructions have been the subject of
debate among archaeologists and antiquarians for the past
seventy-five years. Prominent among the competing hypotheses have
been the allegations that all of these structures were built by
colonial farmers removing rocks from their fields; or that they
were built by pre-Columbian transatlantic voyagers; or that they
are the result of natural deposition by glaciers or downslope
erosion; or that they were constructed as sacred places by the
indigenous peoples of the region. The latter hypothesis has gained
significant attention over the past decade, as the result of strong
and vocal support from the regional descendant indigenous
communities for the preservation of these monuments, called by them
"stone prayers," from encroachment and desecration by development
interests. The purpose of this book is to provide quantitative
support for the indigenous construction hypothesis, by providing a
framework firmly and explicitly situated in the scientific method
to test the four hypotheses above against a robust set of data--a
total of 5,550 sites from the entire region.
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