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A statue of Junípero Serra (sometimes called Father Junipero Serra or Fra Junipero Serra) [1] was installed in a portion of El Pueblo de Los Ángeles Historical Monument informally known as Father Serra Park in Los Angeles, California.
Determined by carbon dating of the layer in which it was found to be between 35,000 and 41,000 years old, it is one of the oldest-known examples of an artistic representation and the oldest confirmed statue ever discovered. [1] Its age associates it with the archaeological Aurignacian culture of the Upper Paleolithic. [2]
Four additional statues stand on piers surrounding the central column, each facing a cardinal direction. Two are female figures allegorically representing Commerce and Plenty. [2] One statue, which is titled "In 49'", commemorates the California Gold Rush. [5] The last, titled Early Days, contains a missionary, a Native American, and a vaquero.
Statue of John J. Pershing (San Francisco) Statue of John McLaren; Statue of Junípero Serra (Monterey, California) Statue of Junípero Serra (Sacramento, California) Statue of Kobe and Gianna Bryant; Statue of Lucille Ball (Palm Springs, California) Statue of Robert Burns (San Francisco) Statue of Sonny Bono; Statue of Sun Yat-sen (San Francisco)
The sandstone statue, executed by sculptor Alvaro de Bree, is 14 feet (4.3 m) tall and weighs 14,000 pounds (6,400 kg). The statue was intended for the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco but arrived too late and was stored in an Oakland, California, garage.
Archaeologists uncovered a 480-year-old gun in Arizona. It’s now considered the oldest firearm ever found within the continental United States.
La Brea Woman was a human whose remains were found in the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, California. The remains, first discovered in the pits in 1914, are the partial skeleton of a woman. [ 2 ] At around 18–25 years of age at death, she has been dated at 10,220–10,250 years BP (Before Present). [ 3 ]
Divers uncovered a 3,000-year-old clay figurine in Italy's Lake Bolsena, revealing human fingerprints and shedding light on Iron Age rituals. Discover the story.