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Piles of rocks spark an American Indian mystery by bat400 on Tuesday, 22 May 2007

Submitted by aluta ---

"NORTH SMITHFIELD, Rhode Island (Reuters) - In a thick forest of maple, willow and oak trees where 17th century European settlers fought hundreds of American Indians, algae-covered stones are arranged in mysterious piles.

Wilfred Greene, the 70-year-old chief of the Wampanoag Nation's Seaconke Indian tribe, says the stone mounds are part of a massive Indian burial ground, possibly one of the nation's largest, that went unnoticed until a few years ago."

More here.

Note: While this is a good sized cairn field, it is by no means the largest, as they suggest. I've heard of as many as 300 rock piles found together, for example, near Ellenville, New York.

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