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Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park is a California State Park, preserving an outcropping of marbleized limestone with some 1,185 mortar holes—the largest collection of bedrock mortars in North America. It is located in the Sierra Nevada foothills, 8 miles (13 km) east of Jackson.
A bedrock mortar (BRM) is an anthropogenic circular depression in a rock outcrop or naturally occurring slab, used by people in the past for grinding of grain, acorns or other food products. [1] There are often a cluster of a considerable number of such holes in proximity indicating that people gathered in groups to conduct food grinding in ...
Hundreds of bedrock mortar holes, petroglyphs on sandstone boulders, rock art, and a vast midden area are evidence of thousands of years of residence. [2] The site has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1973. The site is unique in the presentation of Maidu life.
Archaeological evidence shows settlement as early as 1350, and bedrock mortar sites and pictographs remain. [2] The Native Americans mostly used this site in the winter months. In 1860, Hale Tharp and his brother-in-law, John Swanson, were exploring the Giant Forest when Swanson sustained an injury to his leg.
Kaiser Creek, like all watersources in California, was a deeply important place both materially and spiritually for native inhabitants of the area. Native groups used Kaiser Creek and its neighbors for fishing, bathing, cooking and processing seeds and nuts in bedrock mortars, staples of native Californian life. [10]
With its intricate, carved-wood paneling and diamond-shaped glass panes, location scout Lori Balton thought the smoking room of the historic Andrew McNally House was just glorious.
A man was arrested Tuesday after allegedly setting off a homemade firework near a Southern California shopping center, police said. Reports of an explosion at The Village at Tustin Legacy prompted ...
Southern California will remain under a red flag warning as winds of 30-50 mph and low humidity continue throughout the area until Wednesday at 6 p.m., according to the National Weather Service ...