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About the Book
In the summer of 1974 Byron Dix discovered in Vermont the first of many areas in New England believed to be ancient Native American ritual sites. Dix and coauthor James Mavor tell the fascinating story of the discovery and exploration of these many stone structures and standing stones, whose placement in the surrounding landscape suggests that they played an important role in celestial observation and shamanic ritual.
About the Author(s) of Manitou
James Mavor is an oceanographic engineer recently retired from Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institute. He was one of the designers of the deep submersible
Alvin, and he initiated the Minoan excavations on Thera, which culminated
in the publication of Voyage to Atlantis. Byron Dix, now deceased,
was an optical designer. For fifteen years they worked together researching
New England anthropology and archaeo-astronomy.
Praise for Manitou
". . . among the few innovative advances in the field of New England archaeology in recent years . . . looks at a class of data which are ordinarily overlooked by both prehistorians and historians, and begins to fit them into a new paradigm . . . sensitively written and generally well-supported by documentary and excavational evidence."
Massachusettes Archaeological Society
Massachusettes Archaeological Society
