Past Event
Saturday, October 21, 2017, 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Border Field State Park: The Human Side
301 Caspian Way, Imperial Beach, 91932
Cost: Free
Celebrate archaeology month. For at least 13,000 years, human beings, plants, and animals have existed together to create the landscape known as Border Field. Archaeologists have struggled to trace the human footprints in this story and have a slowly emerging image of the Kumeyaay and other native peoples who lived in the estuary, Spanish and Mexican Era settlers, Boundary Commission, and WWI and WWII occupants of the valley. See how a gardener's trowel, carbon 14, and an 1851 article in the San Diego Herald newspaper all contributed to what we know today.