Much goes to interpretation. The Sonora desert was the stomping ground for all kinds of paranormal activity going back perhaps several thousand years.
The use of words like sorcery, witchcraft, and things like that are incorrect, but are the only words Europeans, Asians and Africans have to describe them. It could best be said that there was a complex, but non-technological civilization, in which “practitioners” of the paranormal were specialized professionals, much as are lawyers, doctors, plumbers, soldiers, etc., are today.
When people from primitive cultures are introduced to technology for the first time, to them it is obviously “magical”. Things like a toilet or light bulb are, to them, witchcraft.
So the proper way for us, technological people, to approach such a non-technological society is to assume they understood “the logic of the toilet”, so to them it was not particularly magical. But we don’t, so to us it is witchcraft.
I use this as background to make two points. The first being that these people were just as belligerent as people are today, so wandering around where they used to live is much like a primitive person wandering around an abandoned US army post, with all of its equipment and weapons still there, but not having a clue what any of it is or does.
Yes, it may look like an interesting rock, but it could be as dangerous as a piece of plastic explosive. In either case you have no idea of its real nature.
The other point is that what eventually destroyed this non-technological society were other Indians, just as ignorant as we are today of such things. Utter blindness to such things conferred something of an immunity to them, unlike technology.
But if you mess around with such things, you are asking for trouble. You might try to define them by the rules you know, but they are under no obligation to follow those rules, any more than giving an incantation prior to firing a gun makes it fire its bullets differently.
Only vestiges of that knowledge still exist today, and are considerably corrupted from their ancient form, but the artifacts themselves still represent a risk.
I agree,never want to see anything.