I recently came across this review of a book.

http://vermonthistory.org/journal/71/vt711_211.pdf


The book was entitled

" Picture Rocks: American Indian Rock Art in the Northeast Woodlands"

and was written by

Edward J. Lenik (Lebanon, N.H.: University Press of New
England, 2003, pp. 267, $60.00; paper $29.95).


Here is an intriguing excerpt (at least it was intriguing to me)

"The Brattleboro petroglyphs receive a much shorter, though reasonably
adequate, discussion. Lenik rejects the suggestion made by Marjorie
Power and myself that the figures represent shamans’ animal helpers.
Instead, he sees them as attempts on the part of shamans to contact
thunderbirds (and some sort of quadruped). Perhaps so, but whoever of
us is right, the production of these images would be associated with shamans
entering altered states of consciousness. One omission here is
Lenik’s failure to note that entering trance frequently brings with it a
somatic sensation of flight. Could this have anything to do with the
prominence of birds at the Brattleboro site?
Other Vermont sites discussed are one in Guilford, another in Woodbury,
and a third in Jericho. The Guilford site is notable for an inscribed
head not unlike the ones at Bellows Falls, as well as two crescents and
several pits or “dots.”

Ok, so I am not so excited about the impossible to settle debates among anthropologists. I tend to think no matter what the topic, that they are all just guessing and defending their careers and arguing over impossible to prove hunches. It might be better if they became poets.

But where the heck are these Brattleboro and Guilford petroglyphs?

Is the land they are located on protected in anyway ?

Rolf