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Stones That Teach
The Living Riddles Of Pre-contact Ontario
Verlag:
Independently Published Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P35636682
EAN: 9798186706106
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Nicht auf Lager
Zustellung: Fr, 06.11.2026
Versand: Kostenlos
CHF 39.75
Beschreibung
Beneath the highways and hockey rinks, beneath the cottage docks and the parking lots, Ontario is thousands of years deep. Long before the first European map was ever drawn, this land was crowded with life: hunters tracking caribou along the shore of a vanished glacial sea, artists carving a thousand figures into white stone, traders carrying red copper a thousand miles by hand, whole towns of a thousand people rising and dissolving in the space of a lifetime. That world did not disappear. It slipped, quietly, just out of sight. Stones That Teach is an invitation to feel it again. Told through thirty genuine, still-unsolved archaeological mysteries, this book turns the ordinary ground of Ontario into a machine for time travel. Why is there an enormous serpent shaped in earth beside Rice Lake. Who carved the riddling figures at Peterborough, and when. What lies drowned beneath the Great Lakes, waiting. How did towns grow, thrive, and then vanish before anyone wrote a single word about them. This is not a book of easy answers or invented legends. It is something better and truer: a guide to standing on real ground and sensing the vast, patient, unfinished human story pressing up through it. Written for curious readers of every age, and grounded in the knowledge and authority of the Anishinaabeg, Huron-Wendat, and Haudenosaunee nations whose ancestors made this history, it teaches the rarest skill of all: how to look at a place you thought you knew and finally see how alive it has always been. >Keywords:. Ontario archaeology, pre-contact history, Indigenous heritage, ancient mysteries, Great Lakes prehistory, petroglyphs, Serpent Mounds
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Peter Kriger
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 274