Event Title
Poster: Prayers in Stone: Native American Stone Constructions of the Eastern Seaboard
Location
Moakley Atrium
Start Time
13-5-2015 4:00 PM
End Time
13-5-2015 5:00 PM
Description
Throughout the eastern seaboard of the United States and Canada, Native people constructed stone monuments as part of their expression of the sacred: cairns, stone piles, stone rows, chambers, U-shaped structures, standing stones, split wedged boulders, balanced rocks, effigies, petroglyphs, stone circles, niches, enclosures, platforms, and mounds. Over 4,500 of these have been inventoried using multiple environmental variables, and analysis using GIS has helped to establish locational parameters. The results are being shared with tribal communities and state historic preservation offices, so as to provide better protection for these special places. This presentation is a progress report on research undertaken under a FLRG from CARS during Fall 2014.
Poster: Prayers in Stone: Native American Stone Constructions of the Eastern Seaboard
Moakley Atrium
Throughout the eastern seaboard of the United States and Canada, Native people constructed stone monuments as part of their expression of the sacred: cairns, stone piles, stone rows, chambers, U-shaped structures, standing stones, split wedged boulders, balanced rocks, effigies, petroglyphs, stone circles, niches, enclosures, platforms, and mounds. Over 4,500 of these have been inventoried using multiple environmental variables, and analysis using GIS has helped to establish locational parameters. The results are being shared with tribal communities and state historic preservation offices, so as to provide better protection for these special places. This presentation is a progress report on research undertaken under a FLRG from CARS during Fall 2014.