Laguna palm trees
by Jennifer Craft
Title
Laguna palm trees
Artist
Jennifer Craft
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Photograph - Photographs
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Laguna Beach was the habitation site of a prehistoric paleoindian civilization.[8] In 1933, the first fossilized skull of a paleoindian found in California was uncovered during construction on St. Ann's Drive.[9] Known as "Laguna Woman", the skull originally was radiocarbon dated to more than 17,000 BP, however, revised measurements suggest it originated during the Holocene era 11,700 years before present.[10] Subsequent research has found several prehistoric encampment sites in the area.[11]
Historically, the indigenous people of the Laguna Beach area were the Tongva. Aliso Creek served as a territorial boundary between Gabrieleno and Acjachemen groups, or Juanenos, named by Spanish missionaries who first encountered them in the 1500s.[12][13] The area of Laguna Canyon was named on an 1841 Mexican land grant map as, Cañada de las Lagunas (English:Glen of the Lagoons).[14] After the Mexican-American War ended in 1848, the area of Alta California was ceded to the United States. The treaty provided that Mexican land grants be honored and Rancho San Joaquin, which included north Laguna Beach, was granted to José Antonio Andres Sepúlveda. Following a drought in 1864, Sepúlveda sold the property to James Irvine.[15] The majority of Laguna Beach was one of the few parcels of coastal land in Southern California that never was included in any Mexican land grant.[15]
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