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Native American question
osage outlaw:
Does anyone know if native americans built stone walls? There are a couple of these short sections of stone walls on our property. This one has fell over. They are next to dry creek beds and around 20 yards long. The other wall is in the next valley over. I don't think they were used for keeping anything fenced in since it's only one straight line. I was wondering if they were used to control deer movement or even as a blind. I have found stone points in the creek bed a few yards away from it. I know this isn't a natural formation. I remember the wall being neatly stacked up when I was a kid. The other one has areas that are still standing.
JW_Halverson:
Low walls and "stone men" were used by the Inuit and Inupiak to direct the migrating caribou. Similar walls have been found at high elevation in Wyoming as well.
osage outlaw:
That's kind of what I thought they were for. It's a good hunting spot. I have a stand right over top of it.
nclonghunter:
In WV there are stone walls documented to have been made by early native folks. They are mostly on or near ridge tops near the Kanawha River. Here is a link to some info on it; http://www.stonestructures.org/html/mount-carbon.html
Is that an osage tree beside that wall?
Hawkdancer:
There are several such sites in Rocky Mountain National Park, I haven't seen them, sort of a rough hike to get there.
Hawkdancer
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