STONES THAT TEACH: THE LIVING RIDDLES OF PRE-CONTACT ONTARIO

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STONES THAT TEACH: THE LIVING RIDDLES OF PRE-CONTACT ONTARIO

By: Peter Kriger

Narrated by: Marion Heasman

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Beneath the highways and hockey rinks, beneath the cottage docks and the parking lots, Ontario is thousands of years deep. Long before the first European map was ever drawn, this land was crowded with life: hunters tracking caribou along the shore of a vanished glacial sea, artists carving a thousand figures into white stone, traders carrying red copper a thousand miles by hand, whole towns of a thousand people rising and dissolving in the space of a lifetime. That world did not disappear. It slipped, quietly, just out of sight.Stones That Teach is an invitation to feel it again. Told through thirty genuine, still-unsolved archaeological mysteries, this book turns the ordinary ground of Ontario into a machine for time travel. Why is there an enormous serpent shaped in earth beside Rice Lake? Who carved the riddling figures at Peterborough, and when? What lies drowned beneath the Great Lakes, waiting? How did towns grow, thrive, and then vanish before anyone wrote a single word about them?This is not a book of easy answers or invented legends. It is something better and truer: a guide to standing on real ground and sensing the vast, patient, unfinished human story pressing up through it. Written for curious readers of every age, and grounded in the knowledge and authority of the Anishinaabeg, Huron-Wendat, and Haudenosaunee nations whose ancestors made this history, it teaches the rarest skill of all: how to look at a place you thought you knew and finally see how alive it has always been.The stones are still here. They are still teaching. All we have to do is learn how to listen.©2026 Peter Kriger (P)2026 Peter Kriger

Peter KrigerMarion HeasmanAltaspera Publishing

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