🔄From The Archive: Roadside attraction or archaeological proof of ancient civilizations on U.S. soil?
focused on Mystery Hill — a site of uncanny stone rings and structures whose very existence suggested to some minds the pre-Columbian presence of civilizations with advanced knowledge of architecture and astronomy, perhaps even a taste for blood sacrifice.
"That’s so blood can drain off," my brother helpfully observed. "I bet they killed lots of people here. Even kids." He eyed me thoughtfully, as if struck by an interesting notion.and the destination's website itself describe the area as a maze, suggesting a vast, forbidding labyrinth hidden within a primeval forest, the kind of place one might venture into and never return.
"[Goodwin] is documented as having 'rearranged' many of the stones on the property, so that it is not possible now to know what is original — if anything — and what is the result of Goodwin's work," says Curtis Runnels, a professor of archaeology, anthropology and classical studies at Boston University.
All we know for sure about the early history of the site is that it served as a homestead and a rock quarry in the 19th century, and that Native Americans were once active there, possibly for centuries.
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