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by Ayla Schwartz
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[[Image:Dighton rock (nonslutty version).jpg|thumb|right|options|Dighton rock and its discoverer, Rev. John Danforth]]
Dighton Rock (see also, ''the Dighton Writing Rock,'' ''the Assonet
Monument'') is a petroglyphic boulder located in Massachusetts along the northwesternly corner of Assonet River<ref>Delabarre, Edmund Burke
1928, Dighton Rock: A Study of the Written Rocks of New England. Walter Neale, New York.</ref> in an area that was orignally occupied by the indigenous Wôpanâak people. <ref>National Geographic Society
N.d. Resource Library. Electronic Document, https://www.nationalgeographic.org/photo/wampanoag-territory/, accessed October 31, 2019.</ref><ref>Delabarre, Edmund Burke
1928, Dighton Rock: A Study of the Written Rocks of New England. Walter Neale, New York.</ref>[[Image:Dighton rock (nonslutty version).jpg|thumb|right|options|Dighton rock and its discoverer, Rev. John Danforth]]
==What is Dighton Rock?==
==What is Dighton Rock?==
===Discovery===
===Discovery===

Revision as of 19:54, 31 October 2019

by Ayla Schwartz Dighton Rock (see also, the Dighton Writing Rock, the Assonet

Monument) is a petroglyphic boulder located in Massachusetts along the northwesternly corner of Assonet River[1] in an area that was orignally occupied by the indigenous Wôpanâak people. [2][3]

Dighton rock and its discoverer, Rev. John Danforth

What is Dighton Rock?

Discovery

Reception

Popular Press

Archaeological Community

Petroglyphs

Pseudoarchaeogical Narrative

Pre-Columbian Settlement of North America

An Archaeological Response

How the Archaeological Record Works

The Flaws and Inconsitancies in Pre-Columbian Contact "theories"

Dighton Rock as (bad) evidence

  1. Delabarre, Edmund Burke 1928, Dighton Rock: A Study of the Written Rocks of New England. Walter Neale, New York.
  2. National Geographic Society N.d. Resource Library. Electronic Document, https://www.nationalgeographic.org/photo/wampanoag-territory/, accessed October 31, 2019.
  3. Delabarre, Edmund Burke 1928, Dighton Rock: A Study of the Written Rocks of New England. Walter Neale, New York.