Moving along with the tombstone as Earth Art topic...after Tuesday's class, I began to wonder if the use of cairns that seems to have been prevalent in ancient burials eventually transitioned into our use of tombstones to mark the graves.

I'm really interested in the anthropological aspect of Earth Art, being that I am an anthropology major, but this doesn't necessarily mean prehistoric Earth Art to me. I like understanding the origins of certain customs and behaviors, such as my question above. I really think the article by Jennifer Roberts about Smithson's travelogues will be interesting to me because of that... not to mention I'm also a Spanish major so the Maya and the Yucatan happen to be my forte. I will write again once I've finished the article.

Poulawack Cairn, Ireland, 3400 BC, photographer unknown.