Thousands of carefully laid up piles of stones are scattered across the hillsides of southern New York and northern Pennsylvania. They were built by human hands sometime after the glaciers retreated north more than 12,000 years ago. When they were made, who made them, and why they were constructed are questions that do not have definite answers.

Dolores Elliott encountered a site in 1966 in Painted Post while on highway survey for the proposed right-of-way of route 17. In the years since she has inventoried several hundred more sites. Over 30 years ago she reported on them at a program of the Broome County Historical Society which met in Sears Harkness at Roberson Center. She has collected some more information since then but the questions are still not answered.

Club member Dolores Elliott grew up her father’s Chenango County dairy farm and graduated from Bainbridge High School. She received a BA in Anthropology from Harpur College and a Masters in Archaeology from SUNY Binghamton. 

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