Sig Lonegren: hundreds of dry-laid stone chambers in New England and the Hudson Valley are Native American, not 'colonial root cellars.' Many sit by roads, threatened. 🧱
Presenter argues New England stone chambers are Indigenous, not colonial root cellars
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- Sig Lonegren: describes hundreds of such chambers across New England and the Hudson River Valley, thinning out towards the west
- The chambers are mostly drywall-constructed and shoe-box shaped, though some are circular; he compares them to English chambers with megalithic slabs and corbelled walls
- He states archaeologists label them 'colonial root cellars' on the assumption Native Americans could not have built them
- He argues the chambers were in fact built by Native Americans
- He dates American awareness of the New England chambers to about 1965, when Betty Cidler began documenting them
- He notes the southwestern sites, including Chaco Canyon, were not recognised until about 1912
- He reports the chambers now face threats from road-building schemes, many standing beside roads as small roadside shelters
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