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Browsing Local History Articles tagged "archaeology"
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The Fossil Sea Cow, by
Frank Perry
The skeleton is from a fossil sea cow (Dusisiren jordani) that lived in the Santa Cruz area 10 to 12 ... [Read more]
Some of the Stone Tools Found at the Scotts Valley Site, by
Laurie C. Van De Werfhorst
In 1991, Laurie C. Van De Werfhorst, along with other students in Field Methods in Archaeology Class of De Anza ... [Read more]
"A Well Looking, Affable People... ": The Ohlone of Aulintak/Santa Cruz, by
MaryEllen Ryan
For thousands of years until a mere one hundred fifty years ago, Santa Cruz and its surrounding lands were the ... [Read more]
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When the former Yugoslavia bleeds, Watsonville aches. The war is far away, in a region smaller than the state of Oregon. But it strikes close to home, in the hearts of the Pajaro Valley's century-old Serbo-Croatian community, which counts friends and relatives in the war's path. Yet in reports of ..." [More]
Excerpted from Agricultural Legacy of Serbo-Croatian Community by Ross Eric Gibson
