Ancient Native Stone Discovered

Once used by Woodland Indians or Native Americans for preparation of corn, nuts or herbs, or for perhaps other sacred or ceremonial reasons, this stone lies along what was the Pocumtuck Trail, later called the Mohawk Trail, in Massachusetts.

I perhaps should say 'rediscovered' in the title of this because I was brought to this site over 35 years ago by a very wise man who showed and taught many forgotten things of the past. I was unable to relocate the stone until recently, after searching for over two years. In the process, many other pieces of a ceremonial sacred landscape were uncovered as part of an ongoing journey and research project.

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[Guycuccio3]

Cool find

[xXKickAssHack3rG0dXx]

I live in Massachusetts and am having trouble where to start to find arrowheads. Any help?

[xXKickAssHack3rG0dXx]

@MojaveGreenXXX lol

[MojaveGreenXXX]

These large holes were not made by Indian people, they were made by Chine immigrants in the 1800"'s and used as toilets, sorry to tell you.

[sethmilty]

thats A Maize ing

[marathonTmatt]

yes, true, the north american native people's in new england grinded acorn, corn, etc into flour, kind of like a mexican tortilla, to my understanding. pretty cool.

[ho2cultcha]

wow! that's an enormous one! i've found much smaller ones used for acorns and i found a beautiful pestle a few wks ago.

[pitatapiu]

Absolutely amazing find!!

[billyboston2002]

Thanks for posting this. I will be showing it to my students.

[aoiankoku]

This type of grinding bowl is common in the Yosemite Valley area and many other areas in northern California. There they were used fro many generations to grind acorns into flour the staple food of most of California's native peoples. As to the likelihood of arrowheads and other stone tools being found in the immediate vicinity keep in mind that the work of making stone tools was performed solely by men and the grinding of acorns was the purview of women only.