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====Archaeological Community==== | ====Archaeological Community==== | ||
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[[Image:Dighton rock inscriptions.jpg|thumb|right|options|Various drawings of the Dighton rock petroglyphs]] | [[Image:Dighton rock inscriptions.jpg|thumb|right|options|Various drawings of the Dighton rock petroglyphs<ref>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.</ref>]] | ||
==Pseudoarchaeogical Narrative== | ==Pseudoarchaeogical Narrative== | ||
===Pre-Columbian Settlement of North America=== | ===Pre-Columbian Settlement of North America=== | ||
Revision as of 15:30, 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]
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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
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Delabarre, Edmund Burke 1928, Dighton Rock: A Study of the Written Rocks of New England. Walter Neale, New York.
- ↑ National Geographic Society N.d. Resource Library. Electronic Document, https://www.nationalgeographic.org/photo/wampanoag-territory/, accessed October 31, 2019.
- ↑ Feder, Kenneth L. 2010 Encyclopedia of Dubious Archaeology: From Atlantis To The Walam Olum. Greenwood, California.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Dighton Historical Society 2014 Dighton Rock. Electronic document, https://dightonhistoricalsociety.wordpress.com/, accessed December 12, 2019.
- ↑ 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.