Dighton Rock

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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]

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. 1.0 1.1 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.