Lithic Literature
Went out for a run in woods the day before yesterday, stopping where the previous night's heavy rain had washed away debris from a stream side. You can zoom in the image above,and note that just about every stone in this image is an artifact. Up here in Maine, it is like this, tools strewn everywhere. These artifacts come embellished with information. Tools, pendants, counting stones, stela, as well and large scale cliff carvings, and erratic, stones all covered with information. Information created by humans, for humans. Information intended to be seen and understood by fellow humans. At first it seemed to recall the totems of the Haida folks of the northeastern coast of the U.S. A pictorial form of writing foreshadowing character writing as in the Asian format. After spending a lot of time looking at the design I began to realize this is more then a totem design. A friend living in Spain, Roca, who also finds stones to carry communications from the past in his back yard, sugg