SPIRITS IN STONE: HUDSON VALLEY MEGALITHS, CAIRNS & SERPENT WALLS | Researcher | Glenn Kreisberg

About this episode

Glenn Kreisberg discusses megalithic sites in the Hudson Valley and their historical significance.

Glenn Kreisberg is a researcher, engineer, author of Spirits in Stone: The Secrets of Megalithic America and co-founder of The Overlook Mountain Center in Woodstock, New York. For this in-the-field episode, we visit a mysterious archaeological site, a mountainside covered in signs of ancient indigenous habitation, enigmatic cairns and serpentine walls. After a reading of early 19th-century accounts from the likes of Lewis & Clark about stone heaps and large stone worship in Native America...

People in this episode

Host: Philippe G. Willis

Guest: Glenn Kreisberg

Topics covered

• megaliths
• archaeology
• indigenous habitation
• cairns
• serpentine walls
• historical accounts

Keywords

• Hudson Valley
• megaliths
• cairns
• serpentine walls
• indigenous habitation
• archaeology
• Lewis & Clark

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Spirits in Stone: The Secrets of Megalithic America

Places: Hudson Valley, Woodstock, New York

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