"Erratics" take their name from the Latin word errare, and are carried by glacial ice, often over distances of hundreds of kilometres. "I have a difficult time accepting that the glaciers deposited so many large stones on top of two or more smaller ones.”Ī glacial erratic is a piece of rock that differs from the size and type of rock native to the area in which it rests these are found just about everywhere in northern Ontario. “I can’t ‘write up’ the one (dolmen) we visited (see map) because they are not recognized as archaeological sites (unless one finds other stuff on the sites)," he wrote. He has identified and registered hundreds of archaeological sites throughout northwestern Ontario. In North America many people have attached different theories and legends to the dolmen – some of them are: these are burial markers, it’s a Viking marker a way to communicate as routeway markers or it is a glacier erratic.ĭennis Smyk a recipient of the Queen’s Jubilee Medal, was the editor of the Driftwood newspaper in Ignace and a licensed avocational archaeologist, passed away in 2018. They are generally all regarded as tombs or burial chambers, despite the absence of clear evidence for this. Archaeologists still do not know who erected these dolmens, which makes it difficult to know why they did it. The oldest known dolmens are in Western Europe, where they were set in place around 7,000 years ago. It remains unclear when, why, and by whom the earliest dolmens were made. A dolmen usually consists of three or more upright stones supporting a larger stone. There are dolmen stones in Northern Ontario. Stonehenge remains a mystery as scientists ask: was it a health spa, or a cemetery? There are mystery stone configurations around the world like Stonhenge, Britain’s greatest prehistoric monument. There are many mysteries off of the back roads. What is the origin of these massive stones? It could be attributed to early indigenous peoples, the Vikings, geologic time or the aliens.
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