User:Jengod/Los Angeles Man

Los Angeles Man is the common name for human remains found at the base of the Baldwin Hills that may be between 9000 and 26000 years old.

He is estimated to have 9,000 years ago. . Mesa Drive was later renamed Crenshaw Boulevard.

Dr. Robert T. Hill examined the excavation site and reported, “All precedents regarding the nature of the deposits in which they were found suggests that they are many thousands of years old.” He sent the following telegram to Henry F. Osborn:
 * Human remains found here completely fossilized. Occur twenty-five feet deep in horizontal stratified of old recent or latest Pleistocene age. No possibility of intrusion or confusion with outwash or Santa Barbara occurrence. Consider most unquestionable ancient occurrence yet reported. Material well cared-for by Bryan and Stock.”

He concluded: “Back of the whole subject, however, as in every science, is the misty beginning, and no one yet knows but that prior to the American Indian imported from Asia, there may have been American indigene, the discovery of which may someday be sprung on us just as were the unsuspected animal fauna of La Brea, and knowledge of the wonderful Cro-Magnon race of Europe in the caverns of Altamira in Spain were but recently suddenly and unexpectedly revealed.”

A photo included with the 1924 report in the L.A. Times shows vertebrae and limb bones, et al. A 1974 Los Angeles Times report on the racemization technique for dating reported work on a “Los Angeles Man” “found in 1936 by a WPA crew near the intersection of La Tijera and La Cienega Blvd. “UCLA’s carbon-14 method had pegged Los Angeles Man as 23,600 years old; Jeffrey L. Bada’s racemization technique put him at 26,000 years old.