I would like to put up some stone art in my neighborhood, but I have not yet decided what kind of stone art to put up. The problem is that I do not know the history of stone art. It is a little frustrating to be a member of the Stone Age without knowing anything about stone art.

First, who are the architects of stone art? Who started it? Did someone wake up one morning, look around and say “I think I will build a statue” and then he/she proceeded to build said statue out of stones? Or was it an organized effort? Did people sit around a table and discuss how they were going to improve on rocks? Was there an architect or was it all done by committee?

What were their motives for building these statues? Were they religious? Was it some way for them to communicate with their Gods? Or was it that they needed something to do during their free time? Were the stones piled up like crazy because someone had nothing better to do or did they have something in mind when they built it? What do you get if you pile up stones in such a way that you form a statue? Do you get more than just a pile of stones if you form them into a statue or monument?

What are some

This blog is about the history of stone art. It will cover many topics including megaliths, sculpture, and great structures built by human beings using stones.

We will also cover sculptures built using rock and stone: whether they are statues or large pieces of art.

We will cover many types of monuments and large structures built by human beings using stones. We will look at the different kinds of decoration that can be found on them, and how to tell what kind of structure it is from the ornamentation.

This blog is not only about large monuments, it is also about small things like statues and engravings. In fact we will have an area focusing on smaller stone art to help people learn more about the subject.

There are many ways to describe these structures, but for our purposes we will categorize them according to the simplest way to describe them: whether they are free standing or part of another structure; and whether they are masonry or carved.

Hi, I’m James and I’m a stone artist. I am also a physicist and astrophysicist with a research focus on dark matter.

This blog is my attempt to share with you the joy of stone art and to introduce you to the ancient history of this craft. There are many things that you can do with stones; I will be concentrating mostly on the building of stone art for home and garden decor. If you are interested in learning about building stone walls or stonewalls check out my other blog entitled Stone Walls: The History and Science of An Invisible Architectural Wonder

I have been doing research on the stone art of New England, trying to understand why it was made. I have studied many examples, and have written an article about their history that will be published soon.

Many people who wonder why someone would spend so much time and energy making these things are often taken aback when they see some of the more astonishing examples. It is sometimes hard to believe that a human being could do something so precise – with only stone tools, no less!

I speak from experience here. The first time I saw one of these pieces up close, I had a hard time believing it was man-made. It looked as if someone had just picked up a random rock from the ground and started sculpting. But the stones in question were found miles from any of the known quarries from which they were presumably cut. So it seems unlikely that anyone just happened to find these rocks lying around.

The more I saw of them, however, the more I realized that this is what makes them so great: every piece is unique; every piece is different in some way; every piece is special in its own way. It’s like each artist went out into his or her backyard and picked up a stone, and then spent hours perfecting it into the

I hope you will enjoy reading this blog and find it useful. I have been writing it for three years and continue to add information, however, I also am writing other blogs which are linked to this one.

The main purpose of this blog is to record the stonework that has survived over time and place it in context with other stone work, so that we may all see the wonderful art that our ancestors have left behind.

**I hope you will join me and leave a comment. I look forward to hearing from you!**

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So why is there so much stone art? It’s hard work to cut and carry all that rock. If you’re going to go to all that trouble, you’d better have a good reason.

One of my favorite pieces of stone art is the Great Serpent Mound in southern Ohio. At over a quarter mile long, it winds its way through the forest like a giant snake. It’s not especially high, but if it were more vertical it would rival the Great Pyramid of Giza in size. The mound is also unique among effigy mounds — big piles of rocks carved in the shape of an animal — in that most effigy mounds are shaped like deer or bears or bison or birds, and this one looks like an enormous snake.

To me, the Great Serpent Mound is profound evidence that whoever built it was thinking about the whole earth. The diagram below shows how similar the mound is to a map of North America (from Wikipedia). The head of the snake is on the far left, and its tail curls around toward its head from behind.

The resemblance is striking, but there’s something more here than just a good idea for a monument or a symbol for people today to remember. The mound was made by people for whom