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===The Flaws and Inconsitancies in Pre-Columbian Contact "theories"===
===The Flaws and Inconsitancies in Pre-Columbian Contact "theories"===
===Dighton Rock as (bad) evidence===
===Dighton Rock as (bad) evidence===
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==References==
==References==

Revision as of 15:37, 13 December 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][1] Although modern archaeologists agree that the Dighton rock petroglyphs were probably inscribed by the indigenous people of the area, Dighton rock has been a source of controversy due to assertions by pseudoarchaeologists that it is evidence of pre-Columbian contact with indigenous nations in the Americas.[3]

Dighton rock and Seth Eastman, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft's illustrator[4]

What is Dighton Rock?

Discovery

Early photo of Dighton Rock[5]

Reception

Popular Press

Archaeological Community

Petroglyphs

Various drawings of the Dighton rock petroglyphs[6]

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

Lithograph of Dighton Rock[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 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. Feder, Kenneth L. 2010 Encyclopedia of Dubious Archaeology: From Atlantis To The Walam Olum. Greenwood, California.
  4. New England Historical Society n.d. The Mystery of Dighton Rock – ‘No man alive knows…’. Electronic document, http://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/the-mystery-of-dighton-rock-no-man-alive-knows/, accessed December 12, 2019.
  5. Dighton Historical Society 2014 Dighton Rock. Electronic document, https://dightonhistoricalsociety.wordpress.com/, accessed December 12, 2019.
  6. McDermott, Alicia 2015 Who Made the Petroglyphs on the Mysterious Dighton Rock? Electronic document, https://www.ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/who-made-petroglyphs-mysterious-dighton-rock-004991, accessed December 12 2019.