The La Brea Tar Pits

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  • Discovering The Pits

    Father Juan Crespi's account was the first written record

  • Use Of The Tar

    Harrison Rodgers noted the use of pitch by natives

  • Recignizing Fossils

    Oil geologist W.W. Orcutt was first to recognize fossils

  • Excavations Of Bones

    George Allen Hancock granted excavation rights to the los Angeles county museum

  • Exabition Of Fossils

    Hancock donated 23 acers to los Angeles county for preservation or exaptation

  • Mueseum Opens

    The los Angeles county natural history museum was built next to the tar pits in Hancock park

  • Present specimen

    Of more than 100 pits only pit 91 is regularly excavated project 23 is also an ongoing excavation