Tuesday, October 29, 2013

The La Brea Tar Pits Remind Us That Los Angeles Is an Ancient City

The La Brea Tar Pits Remind Us That Los Angeles Is an Ancient City

Conventional wisdom designates Los Angeles as a young, capricious metropolis—an underage drinker in the geopolitical nightclub—but it's simply not true. L.A. is actually an ancient city, and the proof is bubbling right up to the surface at the La Brea Tar Pits, one of the richest paleontological sites in the world and the only one being actively excavated in an urban setting.

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