Address Restricted, Clearlake, California. County/parish: Lake.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 03, 1991. NRIS 91001424.
1 contributing site.Also known as:
The Borax Lake site, also known as the Borax Lake–Hodges archaeological site and designated by the Smithsonian trinomial CA-LAK-36, is a prehistoric archaeological site near Clearlake, California. The site, a deeply stratified former lakeshore, contains evidence of the earliest known period of human habitation in what is now California, dating back 12,000 years. A portion of the site, designated a National Historic Landmark in 2006, is owned and preserved by the Archaeological Conservancy.
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