Ron
Moderator Emeritus
After seeing wha the BLM did to the lead mining town at Castle Rock nothing would surprise me. Besides just how does anybody know what was there originally.
wendycoke said:The flyer I picked up about the intaglio says that intaglios are created when the Indians "removed the dark desert pavement stones and dug their design deeper into the light colored soil beneath." I think the intalgio now probably looks like the original. The Blythe ones look like this, too.
Carl L said:Wendy, every intaglio I have seen in really isolated spots in California have been created exactly that way. The desert pavement stones protect the surrounding surface and the area picked clear gets preserved by the winds scouring it clean. They evidently can last for centuries that way.