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Once, it was the Great Blue Volcano

Transcript of a talk by Joe Bagley, Boston city archaeologist, on the Blue Hills' distant past as a large volcano, and why that became important to the Native Americans who, several hundred million years later, inhabited the area:

I have personally visited, excavated, and studied hundreds of Native archaeological sites throughout the east coast, and I have never experienced the types of intact Native landscapes that can be found in the Blue Hills. I do not mean intact as in undeveloped, but intact meaning the actual experience is similar today as it was in the past.

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... to hear this.

I wonder whether Mr. Bagley ever leads archeological tours of the Blue Hills?

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Any chance we could get a guided tour by Mr Bagley? There's still another month or so before the snow...

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I love the Blue Hills, and this would be especially awesome.

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Blue Hills Volcano erupted as recently as 1980, or at least channel 7 reported that it did.

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