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		Petroforms are defined as features formed by the placement (not piling) of stones to create the outlines of figures or shapes.
		Petroforms, consisting simply of stones placed on bare surfaces, are very susceptible to destruction from natural agents, such as animals or even the weather, as well as people who may inadvertently carry away the stones to build campfires, or who purposefully "rearrange" sites or build "new" ones.
		The teachings inherent in the petroforms are considered necessary for the present and future physical, emotional and spiritual well-being of the Anishinabe.
	www.gov.mb.ca /conservation/parks/popular_parks/petroforms/info.html (1535 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		Petroforms, or also known as boulder outlines, or boulder mosaics, are usually prehistoric, human made shapes and patterns that were made by arranging rocks on the open ground.
		Petroforms are similar in some ways to medicine wheels which are also aligned with sunrises and sunsets, equinoxes, solstices, lunar events, and star patterns.
		Petroforms made upon these granite ridges would have been partially a natural outcome based on the importance and use of the ridges for practical reasons and the abundance of glacial till and boulders to make the petroforms.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=petroforms (1838 words)

	Petroform (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Petroforms, or also known as boulder outlines, are the large outline of shapes that were made by arranging many rocks on the open ground into various shapes and patterns.
		Petroform shapes were probably used to guide travellers, point out the directions, for astronomical use, and for ceremonial use.
		The locations of these petroforms are considered sacred ground by many, and the area may have been used to pass along stories, knowledge, and to gather for large meetings.
	www.dejavu.org /cgi-bin/get.cgi?ver=93&url=http%3A%2F%2Farticles.gourt.com%2F%3Farticle%3Dpetroforms%26type%3Den (1094 words)

	Breaking News!
		Petroforms are boulder or rock outlines that are arranged on the ground's surface to resemble a variety of anthropomorphic, zoomorphic, or geometric forms.
		Murray County Historical Society curator Caryl Busman stated that she had informed White of the petroform's presence, and Carney was the person to contact regarding the site.
		While no party or individuals have claimed responsibility for the breakdown in communication that lead to the the petroform's destruction, dialogue on how the situation may be remedied has begun.
	www.neara.org /MiscReports/07-10-03.htm (852 words)

	Petroform-Mound Linkage in East Central Wisconsin
		In 1998 and 1999, three major petroform concentrations were identified in the Towns of Mecan and Shields in the northern part of Marquette County.
		The effigy mound, again discovered in the early spring, is a serpent mound 100 yards long with the bends consistent with the major solar orientations (mid-summer sunrise, mid-winter sunrise, and the corresponding sunsets).
		Evidence is growing rapidly that this correspondence of mounds, petroforms, trails, and other ceremonial or ritual features, has probably been ignored because petroforms are the most fragile and susceptible to removal, and because associated mounds have been destroyed by cultivation (Behm 1990:107).
	www.tcinternet.net /users/cbailey/petroform.html (1067 words)

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		Often found on hilltops, petroforms can be as simple as a cairn of rocks, or as complicated as lines of rocks and figures arranged on the ground in the form of animals and/or humans.
		In addition to their spiritual associations, the petroforms and related mounds and circles can function as a form of calendars, pointing to summer and winter solstice and equinox sunrises and/or sunsets, the cardinal directions, eclipses and other cosmic events.
		If this interpretation is correct, the petroform’s body (Scorpius), together with the headstone (the sun), mirrors the equinox event of 4,000 years past, and may indicate its date of use.
	www.nativepeoples.com /article/articles/197/1/Petroforms/Page1.html/print/197 (1529 words)

	Murray County News
		Murray County Historical Society curator Caryl Busman stated that she had informed White of the petroform's presence, and Carney was the person to contact regarding the site.
		White expressed to Carney during his telephone conversation that the company he represented had no intention in destroying the landmark and they were sensitive to the issue.
		While no party or individuals have claimed responsibility for the breakdown in communication that lead to the the petroform's destruction, dialogue on how the situation may be remedied has begun.
	www.murraycountynews.net /default.asp?storyid=11630&secid=101 (879 words)

	Petroform - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Petroforms, or also known as boulder outlines, are the large outline of shapes that were made by arranging many rocks on the open ground into various shapes and patterns.
		Petroglyphs and pictographs are quite different, because petroforms are often made from large rocks and boulders over large areas of ground, unlike the smaller glyphs and graphs.
		Petroforms made upon these granite ridges would have been partially a natural outcome based on the importance and use of the ridges for practical reasons and the abundance of glacial till and rocks to make the petroforms.
	www.ipzap.com /ipzap.cgi/111010A/http/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroforms (1194 words)

	Petroform - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Petroforms, or also known as boulder outlines, are the large outline of shapes that were made by arranging many rocks on the open ground into various shapes and patterns.
		Petroglyphs and pictographs are quite different, because petroforms are often made from large rocks and boulders over large areas of ground, unlike the smaller glyphs and graphs.
		Petroforms made upon these granite ridges would have been partially a natural outcome based on the importance and use of the ridges for practical reasons and the abundance of glacial till and rocks to make the petroforms.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Petroforms (1165 words)

	Current Research on Wisconsin Petroforms
		There has been an upsurge in petroform research in recent years, some of it in eastern Wisconsin where J. Behm and H. Bender and their colleagues have recorded a number of sites in the vicinities of the Horicon Marsh and Kettle Moraine (Behm 1991:12, 1991:31, Behm et al 1989:28).
		If the petroform is linear or circular, and boulders appear to be missing, probing may be done at the expected locus of the “missing” boulders, as was successfully done by T.H. Lewis.
		At the Hutchings Petroform Site near the north shore of Buffalo Lake (a widening of the historic Fox River), cultural materials were encountered at levels 3, 4 and 5 in a unit profiling the west end of a perfectly arranged crescent oriented exactly to the summer solstice.
	webpages.charter.net /magf/current%20research.htm (2459 words)

	LoopNet - Ancient Petroform / Hunting Land / 760 Wooded Acre, Timberland, Rockbridge, MO
		Seeking a potential buyer that would be willing to preserve the Petroform and all other historical artifacts.
		Copyrighted documentation of the study of the prehistoric astronomically oriented petroform site is available upon request from the listing office.
		You and your advisors should conduct a careful, independent investigation of the property to determine to your satisfaction the suitability of the property for your needs.
	www.loopnet.com /xNet/MainSite/Listing/Profile/ProfileSE.aspx?LID=15213848&linkcode=10850&sourcecode=1lww2t006a00001 (382 words)

	Amimal & human effigies of stone
		Petroforms are boulder arrangements, built on bedrock or soil, often depicting humans, turtles, circles, snakes or abstractions.
		Petroforms - links to articles containing photographs and plans of petroforms:
		The South Dakota boulder petroform of a turtle illustrated below is documented in the Smithsonian Institution's 12th Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology; 1891, p.
	www.nativestones.com /effigy.htm (815 words)

	Native American Stonework of Missouri
		That find, approximately a hundred miles from the sandstone location, established that the nine elements are not unique to sandstone.
		Of course, there are many different types of stone constructions, arrangements, and structures beyond the nine elements, but the elements are the building blocks of Missouri petroform features.
		Triangular or pyramid blocks, rectangular blocks, vertical standing stones (including slabs set on edge), elevated stone pointers, flat stone pointers, catchers, modifiers, four-in-a-row, and ridge stones are the single elements which all or in part comprise most petroform features.
	www.neara.org /Bryant/missouri.htm (1444 words)

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	WDNR - Observatory Hill State Natural Area
		On the exposed rocks at the summit are polished rock surfaces with grooves, striations, and chatter marks created by the passage of the glacial Cary icesheet 12,000 years ago.
		Recently, scientists have discovered the existence of petroglyphs on the hill’s rock outcroppings, which may be part of a larger prehistoric petroform found in Marquette County.
		The slopes are covered with a southern dry forest community dominated by red and white oak, basswood and shagbark hickory and much of the area is now being restored to oak savanna – an imperiled vegetation community in Wisconsin.
	www.dnr.state.wi.us /org/land/er/sna/sna223.htm (308 words)

	Petroforms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Often found on hilltops, petroforms can be as simple as a cairn of rocks, or as complicated as lines of rocks and figures arranged on the ground in the form of animals and/or humans.
		In addition to their spiritual associations, the petroforms and related mounds and circles can function as a form of calendars, pointing to summer and winter solstice and equinox sunrises and/or sunsets, the cardinal directions, eclipses and other cosmic events.
		If this interpretation is correct, the petroform’s body (Scorpius), together with the headstone (the sun), mirrors the equinox event of 4,000 years past, and may indicate its date of use.
	g.msn.com /9SE/1?http://www.nativepeoples.com/article/articles/197/1/Petroforms&&DI=6244&IG=6f138d047e914a7fb42fb8294768c97a&POS=4&CM=WPU&CE=4&CS=AWP&SR=4 (1510 words)

	petroform (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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	diamonds.foomitam.info /unitedairlines-com/petroform.html (1629 words)

	Petroglyphs Pictographs Cave Paintings Geoglyphs - Crystalinks
		The term 'petroglyph' should not be confused with pictograph, which is an image drawn or painted on a rock face, both of which contribute to the wider and more general category of rock art.
		Petroforms, or patterns and shapes made by many large rocks and boulders in rows over the ground, are also quite different.
		A geoglyph is a drawing on the ground, or a large motif, (generally greater than 4 metres) or design produced on the ground, either by arranging clasts (stones, stone fragments, gravel or earth) to create a positive geoglyph (stone arrangement/alignment, petroform, earth mound) or by removing patinated clasts to expose unpatinated ground (negative geoglyph).
	www.crystalinks.com /petroglyphs.html (2405 words)

	Family help: Our family has owned land in Southern Missouri for many years that has a well studied and documented ...
		Family help: Our family has owned land in Southern Missouri for many years that has a well studied and documented Petroform.
		We now have to sell this property and are looking for someone who appreciates these type of formations to purchase this property (760 acres).
		If you know of anyone who might be interested have them contact me. Thanks JD jdhawk edited this post 7 months ago.
	help.com /post/5335-our-family-has-owned-land-in-southe (923 words)

	Marja-Leena Rathje: petroforms
		Manitoba Conservation's Parks page has a bit about Bannock Point Petroforms: "The Bannock Point Petroforms are figures laid out on bedrock in the forms of turtles, snakes and humans, and also in abstract patterns.
		The Petroforms of Manitoba provides more information with a few illustrations, such as "Teaching Places, Healing Places" on how the sites are still used as sacred places by the Anishinabe.
		Here's a definition of petroforms : "Petroforms are defined as features formed by the placement (not piling) of stones to create the outlines of figures or shapes.
	www.marja-leena-rathje.info /archives/petroforms.php (1062 words)

	The Daily Page \| Madison, Wisconsin :: View topic - Local archaeoastronomy meeting thursday eve.
		Besides the many aligned stone rows and other petroform and rock art found there, remnants of what was once a large circle of stone, likely 100 meters in diameter, have also been discovered and mapped.
		With continued clearing of grass and brush, more petroform has been documented and mapped over the past few years and it is now that the complete picture of what this place must have represented is emerging.
		He is a geologist, amateur astronomer, and published historian with decades of experience observing the sky.
	www.thedailypage.com /forum/viewtopic.php?t=17605&view=next (894 words)

	The 106 Group: Energy & Pipelines
		The archaeology field assessment and background research indicated that the project area has a high potential to contain previously undocumented archaeological resources.
		Background research showed that many site types exist in the Buffalo Ridge area, including petroform effigies, burials, earthworks, smoke signal pits, tipi rings, lithic and artifact scatters, and village sites.
		The archaeology field assessment indicated that there have not been extensive disturbances to the project area.
	www.106group.com /pipelines.htm (387 words)

	GoNanaimo.com - Bannock Point Petroforms, Manitoba, Canada
		Whiteshell's canoe routes, self-guiding or backpacking trails, and 200 lakes are replicated in many parks across northern Ontario and Quebec.
		What's unique are the Bannock Point Petroforms created by the first Canadians long before Europeans entered the area.
		Here boulders were arranged on the mossy bedrock by the Native peoples in the shapes of turtles, birds, fish, humans, and snakes to heal and teach.
	www.gonanaimo.com /canada/petroforms.html (282 words)

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		The petroform is a mirror image of the constellation Scorpius.
		Petroforms are purposeful arrangements of rocks into various shapes, including circles, lines, animals and humans.
		Recent field surveys indicate that there are many more petroforms at the site than were previously thought to exist.
	www.princeton.edu /webannounce/Princeton_Announcements/Archived/2002/APR_Text.html_backup (14470 words)

	Herman Bender
		Herman Bender is a geologist, amateur astronomer, and published historian with decades of experience observing the sky.
		He is also internationally published in the fields of petroform research, archaeoastronomy and applied geophysics, and a co-founder and president of the Mid-America Geographic Foundation, Inc. (MAGF), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to education, preservation and protection of cultural and heritage phenomena.
		MAGF was the official organizer and co-host of the 1999 International Rock Art Conference held at Ripon College in May, 1999.
	www.mythictravels.com /About_Mythic_Travels/about_HermanBender.html (145 words)

	Wandering in the Whiteshell
		The petroform site is something not to be missed if you haven't already seen it.
		We stopped in to see the exhibits in the museum including the interesting display on the endangered Sturgeon.
		My personal favourite is the display relating to the Petroform Site.
	www.nativeorchid.org /dorisWE2-Wandering-03aug.htm (971 words)

	Rock Art Teacher's / Parent's Guide
		Have a discussion on how fragile the rock art is and the problems in protecting and preserving them for the future.
		For the pictographs and petroglyphs, the protection plan is based on the assumption that the panels are mounted on the wall outside their classroom.
		For the geoglyphs / petroforms, the plan is based on protecting the images remaining outside, where they were made.
	www.digonsite.com /grownups/TGRockArt.html (1116 words)

	The Turtle and the Serpent - Petroform Astronomy
		A fascinating puzzle faces anyone today who looks at the many stones, stone piles and intact petroforms of southwestern Manitoba.
		In 1977 astronomer Dr. John Eddy concluded that most of the “medicine wheels” and “petroforms” of the Great Plains and Canadian Prairies include sighting markers for making astronomical observations.
		These findings were published in Scientific American and National Geographic, creating a modest stir at the time.
	www.turtlemountain.org /exhibits/mythandhistory/astronomy (513 words)

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