EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Mexican authorities confirmed they have found the remnants of an Indigenous village that could date back a millennium.
The site called La Cienega (The Marsh) sits near the Arizona-Mexico border and was identified by government archaeologists monitoring work on the Nogales-Imuris railroad track relocation project.
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The 15.4-acre site includes the foundation of up to 60 dwellings, a cemetery with 40 human remains and 28 urns holding the ashes of people who were cremated, according to the National Institute of Archaeology and History (INAH).
The institute is linking the village to the Hohokam people. Members of that tribe were the ancestors of the Pima and Tohono O’odham of southern Arizona, according to the U.S. National Park Service…