A worker uses a pick to excavate a section of the site marked off by strings. Tags, tools and buckets are scattered on the floor. Photo caption reads: "Protective plastic coverings shield concentrations of new evidence of man never before found in Western Hemisphere. Finding was made in Pit no. 91 at Rancho La Brea. Two-story Swiss chalet-type building will be constructed this summer to house project personnel and all research operations". Photo dated: July 10, 1970.
Paleontological excavations--California--Los Angeles Excavations (Archaeology)--California--Los Angeles Fossils--California--Los Angeles La Brea Pits (Calif.) Hancock Park (Los Angeles, Calif. : Park) Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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