Alternative Science & History News

1) "Tikis On The Edge Of The World" - Petroglyphs and stone structures on the Marquesas

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/73179/weblog/tikis_at_the_edge_of_the_world_andndash_part_one.html

2) Questions surrounding a T-shaped mound at the Poverty Point site in Louisiana

http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20090307/NEWS/903061942

3) In celebration on this week's Celtic celebration. Musical dolmens and ringforts! Yikes.

http://rounder.com/?id=album.php&catalog_id=4291

4) Vast stone wall structures used for hunting in the Israeli desert

http://www..israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/130209

5) A similar structure used to trap fish off the British coast

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1162395/Giant-fish-trap-built-1-000-years-ago-chance-British-coast.html

6) Carvings of a dinosaur found in temple ruins in Cambodia

http://www.allnewsweb.com/page4994992.php

7) The North Salem dolmen is mentioned is an article about fraud charges filed against the Town's supervisor

"The most famous site in North Salem is the Balanced Rock, a 60-ton granite boulder miraculously perched on a tripod of limestone slabs. Was it left there by ancient glaciers? By American Indians as a boundary marker? As a dolmen or Celtic death memorial? No one knows. It’s hard to imagine preindustrial humans building it and harder still to imagine it as an accident of glacial history."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/nyregion/01towns.html?_r=1

Welcome to the list Val (as the second Val on the list).

Keep on freeing up the rock world....

Rob