Is there a prosaic explanation for this sacred site? Goal Hiking investigates!
Just across the border from Needles in Arizona lies the "Topock Maze", a small patch of land with a series of lines etched into the desert floor. Even though it meant yet another trip through the agricultural checkpoint, I decided to check it out.
The local Fort Mojave Tribe claims it has spiritual significance and there's a plaque to that effect. However, others offer a more prosaic explanation that the lines were created by wheelbarrows or similar that were used to collect large stones.
I'd left my Junior Scientist Carbon-14 Dating Kit at home, and there was no one around to Huell, so that's the end of my investigation.
However, if a group says something has spiritual significance I'm not going to doubt them. Further, the complex with the lines was much larger before the railway and highway came, and there was a human figurine nearby that was destroyed in 1888. That tends to bolster the case that it wasn't just a by-product of industrial activity.
I report, you decide.
