St Augustine's Abbey Standing Stone

Submitted by Andy B on Sunday, 27 July 2025   (5527 reads)

St Augustine's Abbey Standing Stone

Early Medieval (Dark Age)One of two sarsen stones discovered in the foundations of the original abbey. Nobody knows for certain but it is claimed that Saint Augustine may have used this one as a preaching cross. St Augustine's Abbey was originally created as a burial place for the Anglo-Saxon kings of Kent, it is part of the Canterbury World Heritage Site, along with the Cathedral and St Martin's Church.
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I'm off to Canterbury on Wednesday as a guest at Fiona R's book event and I'm going to have a look for these
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Ulucak Höyük

Submitted by davidmorgan on Wednesday, 02 July 2025   (675 reads)

Ulucak Höyük

Neolithic and Bronze AgeOne of the oldest sites in Western Anatolia. The first settlement in the mound dates back to 8850 years ago. For 1150 years, the Neolithic settlement continued - that's 45 generations without interruption.
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A recent and rare find from one of the most prominent and oldest Neolithic sites in Türkiye – a clay statuette of a female figurine, dated to ~6000BCE
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Mistasiniy

Submitted by TheDruid-3X3 on Friday, 27 June 2025   (821 reads)

Mistasiniy

Natural PlacesA large glacial erratic deposited after the last ice age. The stone, thought to resemble a resting buffalo, is estimated to have weighed 400 tons and was a sacred site - not only to the Plains Cree, but to other First Nations who traversed the prairies. During the 1960s, when it became apparent the stone would be submerged by the rising waters of Lake Diefenbaker, efforts were made to save the mistasiniy. A long campaign led by the late Zenon S. Pohorecky, professor of anthropology and archaeology at the University of Saskatchewan, to move the rock to higher ground ultimately proved unsuccessful. Many believe a “quiet” decision was made to quell the lobby - on the morning of December 1, 1966, a crew from the PFRA (Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration) arrived with a reported 60 sticks of dynamite and reduced the millennia-old stone to rubble. This archive picture was taken with Tribal Elder Wilfred Tootoosis about a year before the stone was blown up.
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Blackfoot Buffalo Effigy

Submitted by TheDruid-3X3 on Friday, 27 June 2025   (323 reads)

Blackfoot Buffalo Effigy

Pre-ColumbianThis is the Blackfoot Tribe's Sacred Site of the Buffalo Effigy located South of the Village of Big Beaver Saskatchewan. The Buffalo Effigy was constructed by local Indigenous Blackfoot Tribe from fieldstone overlooking West Beaver Creek near the border with Montana.
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Mesa Verde - Far View House

Submitted by Stonetracker on Thursday, 26 June 2025   (2458 reads)

Mesa Verde - Far View House

Pre-ColumbianA Chacoan style great house from the Pueblo 2 period (950 -1150 CE) in Colorado state. Like most great houses, it served as a community center for ritual and social activities. It was also possibly used as a central storage point for harvested produce. The people lived in room blocks in small villages dispersed around the great house. There were at least 50 villages in Far View, of which a handful have been excavated and restored and can be visited today.
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Edge of the Cedars State Park and Museum

Submitted by AKFisher on Monday, 23 June 2025   (1742 reads)

Edge of the Cedars State Park and Museum

Pre-ColumbianAn Ancestral Puebloan archaeological site in Blanding, Utah including a museum, and archaeological repository. Cowboys from the nearby town of Bluff camped there in the late 19th century and called the site Edge of the Cedars because it sits on the edge of a natural boundary, separating a heavily forested region and a treeless landscape to the south. Cedar is a term locals use for the Utah juniper tree.
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The museum here has one of the most extensive repositories of pottery and ceramics from the Pueblo period and earlier. Stonetracker has kindly posted several videos of his visit, view from the comments section of our page
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Fossilized Footprints - White Sands National Park

Submitted by AKFisher on Thursday, 19 June 2025   (3122 reads)

Fossilized Footprints - White Sands National Park

Mesolithic, Palaeolithic and EarlierFor 80 years, only a small collection of fossilized footprints were known to exist at White Sands. However, in 2006, a group of scientists noticed dark spots dotting the expanse of the lakebed that appeared to be footprints. Their curiosities lead them to dig up these dark spots in 2009. This led to the discovery of both Harlan’s ground sloth and human footprints.
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New dating confirms White Sands footprints in New Mexico are 23,000 years old - pushing the date of human arrival in the Americas earlier, more on our page.
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Noatak Petroglyphs

Submitted by AKFisher on Wednesday, 18 June 2025   (686 reads)

Noatak Petroglyphs

Rock ArtA look at the petroglyphs found in the Noatak National Preserve - the first of their kind found in Alaska. Discovered whilst excavating the remains of three prehistoric lakefront dwellings. “The first one looks like a little stone that had some scratch marks on it,” said Shirar, research archaeologist at the University of Alaska Museum of the North. “We got really excited when we found the second one with the drilled hole and the more complicated etchings on it. That’s when we realized we had something unique.” More details on our page.
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Hanlan’s Point Footprints

Submitted by TheDruid-3X3 on Monday, 26 May 2025   (4225 reads)

Hanlan’s Point Footprints

Mesolithic, Palaeolithic and EarlierIn 1908, workers installing a utility tunnel near Hanlan’s Point on Toronto Island found up to 100 human footprints impressed in the clay lake bottom approximately 21 metres below the present surface of Lake Ontario. The foot impressions, some apparently wearing moccasins, would have been made by the early Indigenous inhabitants of what is now known as Toronto, dating to between 11,300 and 9,000 years ago.
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Aztec Ruins National Monument

Submitted by bat400 on Sunday, 11 May 2025   (13339 reads)

Aztec Ruins National Monument

MuseumsThe modern of village of Aztec, San Juan County, New Mexico, is the site of several closely spaced Ancestral Puebloan village “Great Houses” and smaller homesteads. Also ancient roads, temples and artifacts - the complex is considered to be a Chaco Canyon outlier. The park contains a visitor's center with museum and a multitude of archaeological sites, only a few of which are accessible to the public.
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