Even though human made, the petroglyphs sites exist within the context of, and are wholly tied to the immediate surrounding environment, whatever the original purpose might have been for the indigenous people who worked to create these human heritage sites (art, seasonal calendar, navigation, spiritual), thieves cutting out and destroying, removing a part, lessens the whole, and it also lessens the part. It's a total disgraceful disrespectful degradation. But then old growth thousand-year-old Sequoia trees were turned into fence posts back in the day.
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