This event is available both in-person and on Zoom, but requires registration at  tinyurl.com/pinehawk-2024

"Burying the Trowel: A History of Controversy and Innovation in New England’s Cultural Stone Features Debate" with cultural anthropologist Kitty O’Riordan. While there have been numerous investigations into the provenance of the unusual stone features dotting the woodlands and hillsides of New England, the history of these theories and the debate itself is as worthy of study as the sites it centers on. This talk gives an overview of the changing ways these features have been understood over time, and the friction this has caused between avocational researchers and professional archaeologists. The benefits and limitations of new techniques in their study, and the ways some are working to repair collaborative relationships and build new networks of communication, prove promising for future investigations of these culturally important places.

The Friends of Pine Hawk programs are presented with support from Acton Memorial Library, Freedom’s Way National Heritage Area and the Littleton Historical Society.

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