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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

I have always found this reference provocative and  memorable: You think man can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. Let me tell you about our planet. Earth is four-and-a-half-billion-years-old. There's been life on it for nearly that long, 3.8 billion years. Bacteria first; later the first multicellular life, then the first complex creatures in the sea, on the land. Then finally the great sweeping ages of animals, the amphibians, the dinosaurs, at last the mammals, each one enduring millions on millions of years, great dynasties of creatures rising, flourishing, dying away -- all this against a background of continuous and violent upheaval. Mountain ranges thrust up, eroded away, cometary impacts, volcano eruptions, oceans rising and falling, whole continents moving, an endless, constant, violent change, colliding, buckling to make mountains over millions of years. Earth has survived everything in its time.It will certainly survive us. If all the nuclear weapons in the...

April 14, 2011 pictures of our group members with the audio portion of Dr. Jane Pisano's welcome. This is a video so you will have to click on the ball first, wait a couple of seconds and then click on the arrow and wait for video to start: All the below items are pictures which you can enlarge by double clicking on the image: