Posted on April 3, 2015 by Robert Thorson
(with some editing/annotation of mine in quotes)
"Of course there are! There have to be!
Hundreds of thousands of human beings have walked and worked the New England
uplands for at least 11,000 years. And many features have been confirmed
as pre-Colonial by properly credentialed archaeologists.
But let us not conflate the few (hundreds of thousands of miles of), the small, (the large) and
the odd(ly unnoticed and incredibly beautiful) stone (Snake Effigies and other remarkable Ceremonial Stone Landscape) features in the woods (and next to the occasional
Stop & Shop) with the latticework of (culturally appropriated and then) abandoned stone walls gracing much of
the New England countryside. This latticework of walls is (assumed to be) the collective work
of colonial and early American farmsteads built by Euro-settlers and their
descendants since 1607 (or so contends a geologist who is not trained to
recognize Indigenous Sacred Ceremonial Stone Landscapes)..."
https://stonewall.uconn.edu/2015/04/03/are-their-pre-colonial-stone-ruins/
Here's a reliable source about Indigenous Ceremonial Stone Landscapes:
Samson/Sampson Rock in September 2019:
"Those who know say the Uktena is a great snake, as large around as a tree trunk, with horns on its head, and a bright blazing crest like a diamond on its forehead, and scales glowing like sparks of fire. It has rings or spots of color along its whole length, and can not be wounded except by shooting in the seventh spot from the head, because under this spot are its heart and its life. The blazing diamond is called Ulun'suti—"Transparent"—and he who can win it may become the greatest wonder worker of the tribe. But it is worth a man's life to attempt it, for whoever is seen by the Uktena is so dazed by the bright light that he runs toward the snake instead of trying to escape. As if this were not enough, the breath of the Uktena is so pestilential, that no living creature can survive should they inhale the tiniest bit of the foul air expelled by the Uktena. Even to see the Uktena asleep is death, not to the hunter himself, but to his family." - James Mooney Myths of the Cherokee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horned_Serpent
See also:
Thorson in "Their" also writes: "Last night, while giving a talk to the Boxborough Conservation Trust in Massachusetts, I got the inevitable question about pre-colonial stone ruins. This morning, I decided to post my answer in the form of a keynote speech I gave several years ago to the New England Antiquities Research Association."
Follow this link to "Thorson’s Keynote Speech to (sic) NERA:" https://stonewall.uconn.edu/.../thorsons-keynote-speech.../
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