Stories: Off to Anacapa!

Our Anthropology Curator heads to the Channel Islands on an unprecedented underwater archaeology expedition to find evidence of the first people to set foot on these shores.
Chapters
0:00 Introduction to Research
4:15 What About Tar Seeps Found Underwater?
6:48 How and When Did People First Get Here?
9:58 Why Were People Migrating?
12:06 So, You're an Underwater Archaeologist?
14:28 Tell Us About the Tribal Communities?
Under a sky stacked high with fog, NHM’s Associate Curator of Anthropology, Dr. Amy Gusick, and her fellow scientists embark on an unprecedented research cruise from the Santa Barbara Harbor towards the Northern Channel Islands. These aquatic cartographers are exploring a submerged portion of the coastline and scouting for ancient landscapes to construct a detailed undersea map of the past.
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