An ancient Indigenous intaglio site in southern Arizona was damaged during border wall construction tied to the Trump administration’s expansion project.
Customs and Border Protection later confirmed that construction equipment “inadvertently disturbed” the Las Playas Intaglio, a desert ground etching estimated to be more than 1,000 years old and connected to the ancestral landscape of the O’odham people.
Archaeologists and Indigenous residents say bulldozer tracks cut through part of the sacred formation inside Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge.
“If someone came to Washington and started destroying all the different sites that people in the United States revere, it’s the same thing for us.” — Lorraine Marquez Eiler, Elder, Hia-ced O’odham people, to The Washington Post.
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Source: The Washington Post, Archaeology Southwest
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