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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 ...
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.
Small tar pit. La Brea Tar Pits is an active paleontological research site in urban Los Angeles. Hancock Park was formed around a group of tar pits where natural asphalt (also called asphaltum, bitumen, or pitch; brea in Spanish) has seeped up from the ground for tens of thousands of years.
Ranger Greg Francek found a trove of fossilized animals and petrified trees more than 5 million years old in an area east of Oakland, California.
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.
A recently discovered 7th century BC tomb contained a treasure trove of over 150 ancient artifacts, including the remnants of two chariots, in addition to the remains of its long-deceased occupant ...
The Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum (REM) is devoted to ancient Egypt, located at Rosicrucian Park in the Rose Garden neighborhood of San Jose, California, United States. It was founded by the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC). The Rosicrucian order continues to support and expand the museum and its educational and scientific activities.
More exhibits at the Sanxingdui Museum have been inspired by the ancient artifacts found in excavations. To date, there have been over 60,000 relics found at the site, according to the source.