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Outside: Inside: But first, For Our Amusement (video): PowerPoint Presentation: Nature Walk with Tracy: Red Tailed Hawk: Lunch at Doubletree Hotel in Torrance: Host and Organizer Maria Martinez:

Please join us for the UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Open House on Saturday, May 14, from 1-4 pm. All our Research Laboratories and Archives will be open to the public from 1-4 pm. There will be a children's activity room, Virtual Reality Demonstrations, and Fowler Museum will offer guided tours of their exhibits. Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond our control, Dr. Jo Anne Van Tilburg will not be able to deliver her lecture as advertized. We are pleased to announce the lecture by Dr. Alexei Vranich at 2 pm in the Lenart Auditorium. "The Lake Titicaca Reed Boat Experiment" Archaeologists test the feasibility that reed boats were used to transport multi-ton stones across lake Titicaca from volcanic quarries to the megalithic city of Tiwanaku, Bolivia. Parking is available for $10 in Lot 4 (Sunset and Westwood Blvd). For further information call 310-206-8934.

This story was sent to you by: Chuck The artifacts — terra cotta floor tiles, an irrigation channel, bowls, beads and other evidence of 18th century mission life and the Chumash tribe that preceded it — may impede efforts to develop the parcel. By Steve Chawkins, Los Angeles Times May 8 2011 Reporting from Ventura, Calif. -- When archeologist John Foster started peeling the asphalt from a parking lot in downtown Ventura, he knew he wouldn't have to dig deep to find a cache of long-buried relics. The complete article can be viewed at: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-mission-discovery-20110508,0,1919076.story Visit latimes.com at http://www.latimes.com