11,000-Year-Old Seafaring Indian Sites Discovered on California Island

Ancient California Islanders Relied on Drifting ‘Tarballs’ for Petroleum, Study Finds

February 3, 2014 —by Blake de Pastino 19025 3

Eight thousand years ago, as today, one thing you needed to get by in southern California was petroleum. But even then, it seems, you didn’t need the top-grade stuff shipped…

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11,000-Year-Old Seafaring Indian Sites Discovered on California Island

January 6, 2014 —by Blake de Pastino 82375 44

Just offshore from the chock-a-block development of Southern California, archaeologists have discovered some of the oldest sites of human occupation on the Pacific Coast. On Santa Rosa Island, one of…

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Ancient California Islanders Relied on Drifting ‘Tarballs’ for Petroleum, Study Finds

11,000-Year-Old Seafaring Indian Sites Discovered on California Island

700,000-Year-Old Horse Found in Yukon Permafrost Yields Oldest DNA Ever Decoded

At 50, Ring-Tab Beer Cans Are Now Officially Historic Artifacts

16,000-Year-Old Tools Discovered in Texas, Among the Oldest Found in the West

Wyoming Wildfire Reveals ‘Massive’ Shoshone Camp, Thousands of Artifacts

New Dinosaur Found in Montana Reveals Tyrannosaurs’ True Face (They Didn’t Have Lips)

First-Ever Fossil Poop Excavated From L.A.’s La Brea Tar Pits

New Feathered Dinosaur From New Mexico Was Among the ‘Last of the Raptors’

America’s Earliest Traces of Potato Use Found at 10,900-Year-Old Utah Shelter

Rock Art in Chaco Canyon May Depict Ancient Solar Eclipse, Experts Say

World’s Best-Preserved Armored Dinosaur, a ‘Mona Lisa’ of Fossils, Found in Alberta