Our expedition Stories in Stone at National Geographic FieldNotes is back up and running. We’ve been working hard to push all the old posts back up. Once we get it up to date again, we will begin posting new notes from our work hunting down Mysterious Inscription and Petroglyphs hidden in the northeast. Over the past three years we’ve rediscovered many lost stone engravings and accumulated hundreds of leads.
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About ten years ago, a curious cave in Belchertown Massachusetts was discovered by Chris, a Senior Restoration Ecologist for the Natural Heritage and Endangered Species program. He stumbled on the small niche while searching for rare plants. To find these rare and endangered species he often finds himself in some of the most inhospitable and difficult to access recesses of the northeast. After scrambling over a steep talus and beating his way through a dense wall of thorns and vines, he spotted the small cave hidden at the base of a 15-foot cliff. Inside he found three names that had been inscribed on the wall in 1878. He photographed his accidental discovery and posted it online with the images of the plants, animals and insects he uncovers for his work.
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Mysterious Petroglyphs & Inscriptions in New England Lecture
Mavis Robinson, the administrator at the Bourne Historical Society, invited me to do a lecture on my Expedition Stories in Stone at their facility for Archeology Month on Oct 10th 2018 . Mavis was a fantastic host for the event. When she noticed that many of the followers of Stories in Stone asked if the event could be videotaped, she quickly made arrangements to have this done.
During my presentation, I spoke about the project, a variety of interesting inscriptions, the workflow used when investigated them. I shared some investigation techniques and modern technologies that you can use to unravel the stories being some of the puzzling inscription in the northeast. I’ll use the Bourne Stone to demonstrate some of the methods that can be used to document and analyze these fascinating artifacts hidden in the forest of New England. The turnout was fantastic, and we had a full house. Audience members stuck around for the Q&A and had many great questions about the project and other things with which I’m involved.
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