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The Calico Early Man Site is an archaeological site in an ancient Pleistocene lake located near Barstow in San Bernardino County in the central Mojave Desert of Southern California. This site is on and in late middle- Pleistocene fanglomerates (now-cemented alluvial debris flow deposits) known variously as the Calico Hills, the Yermo Hills, or ...
These volunteer excavations produced artifacts and other data that supported the previous research; including a chert crescent tool [14] and a leaf-shaped chert biface that supported an estimated date of 10,000 - 7,000 YBP, and a metate feature, which is one of the oldest dated examples of ground-stone in California.
Two human skeletons, a male and a female, were found in La Jolla, California, in 1976; they date back at least 9,500 years. They were found during construction work on a house. They were the subject of a decade-long legal battle. The University of California decided to return the remains to one of the local Kumeyaay Indian bands. This was done ...
The elite figure, identified as a chieftain, was buried with gold artifacts and 25 other people. A close-up photo shows an intricate gold artifact found in the 1,200-year-old grave.
People first uncovered fossils around San Pedro High School in 1936. They were ancient shells belonging to snails and other mollusks from tens of thousands of years ago.
Human remains were found in brush 43 years ago in California, deputies said. DNA testing recently helped identify them as Denise Cruz, the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office said in a Nov. 7 news ...
The Cerutti Mastodon site is a paleontological and possible archeological site in San Diego County, California. In 2017, broken mastodon bones at the site were dated to around 130,700 years ago. The bones were found with cobblestones displaying use-wear and impact marks among the otherwise fine-grain sands.
Millions of prehistoric marine fossils were discovered beneath a California high school over the course of a multi-year construction project. The relics recovered at San Pedro High School included ...