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La Brea Woman was a human whose remains were found in the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, California. The remains, first discovered in the pits in 1914, are the partial skeleton of a woman. [ 2 ] At around 18–25 years of age at death, she has been dated at 10,220–10,250 years BP (Before Present). [ 3 ]
This is a list of the oldest ships in the world which have survived to this day with exceptions to certain categories. The ships on the main list, which include warships, yachts, tall ships, and vessels recovered during archaeological excavations, all date to between 500 AD and 1918; earlier ships are covered in the list of surviving ancient ships.
A barquentine that was burned and sunk in Catalina Harbor at Santa Catalina Island, for the movie Old Ironsides. SueJac: 14 November 1980 A schooner that ran aground on Casino Point, Santa Catalina Island. USS Stribling United States Navy: January 1937 A Wickes-class destroyer that was sunk as a target off San Pedro. UB-88 United States Navy
The earliest tales of a lost Spanish galleon appeared shortly after the Colorado River flood of 1862. Colonel Albert S. Evans reported seeing such a ship in 1863. In the Los Angeles Daily News of August 1870, the ship was described as a half-buried hulk in a drying alkali marsh or saline lake, west of Dos Palmas, California, and 40 miles north of Yuma, Arizona.
The wreck, which was buried in the sand, is the most preserved wreck of a wooden clipper ship off the coast of California. [1] Left in place at extreme low tide level in 1878, what is left of the wreck of the King Philip is usually covered in sand. Sometimes, as the profile of the sand on the beach shifts and changes, the timbers reemerge and ...
One of the deadliest accidents in recent U.S. maritime history was the fault of owners of a Southern California dive boat whose lack of oversight resulted in a fire that swept through the vessel ...
11 ancient canoes were discovered buried in a Wisconsin lake, the oldest dating back 4,500 years ago. The range ages of these canoes may signify they were stored during winters, possibly ...
The Dong Son culture in Vietnam is known by archaeologists due to a great concentration of boat-shaped coffins. 171 boat-shaped coffins were recovered from 44 sites in Vietnam, and most of these were found from Dong Son sites. Some of these burials included carefully arranged grave goods inside the coffin along with the corpse of the dead.