Featured: Friendly specialist tours to ancient, mystical and historical sites in the UK and beyond

Friendly specialist tours to ancient, mystical and historical sites in the UK and beyond

Random Image


Borbecke Quelle

Explore Cornwall with the amazing Megalithic Portal smartphone app

Explore Cornwall with the amazing Megalithic Portal smartphone app

Who's Online

There are currently, 157 guests and 0 members online.

You are a guest. To join in, please register for free by clicking here

Sponsors

<< Other Photo Pages >> Maidu Indian Interpretive Center - Ancient Village or Settlement in United States in The West

Submitted by bat400 on Monday, 16 July 2007  Page Views: 22574

Multi-periodSite Name: Maidu Indian Interpretive Center
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 45.061 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: The West Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Sacremento, CA  Nearest Village: Roseville, CA
Latitude: 38.738100N  Longitude: 121.24656W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
5 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
4

Internal Links:
External Links:

Maidu Indian Interpretive Center
Maidu Indian Interpretive Center submitted by Flickr : Maidu Indian Interpretive Center, Roseville, CA Image copyright: uvw916a (Vince), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Settlement in Placer County, California. This site, containing petroglyphs and bedrock mortars, was a settlement site at the time of European contact but has been attracting people for thousands of years. Part of a regional park, there is a small museum visitor center, wheelchair accessible trails to the prehistoric sites, and reconstructions of pithouses used by the Indians of Northern California up into the contact era of the 1700's.

The Maidu Indians of Northern California consisted on several subgroups of hunter gatherer societies. They and their ancestors, unlike peoples of the southwest and eastern North America, did not develop agriculture.
Descriptive tours are given daily.

Note: At a known site, squirrels bring up ancient artifact.
You may be viewing yesterday's version of this page. To see the most up to date information please register for a free account.


Maidu Indian Interpretive Center
Maidu Indian Interpretive Center submitted by Flickr : Maidu Creation Story American Indian Museum Gallery Washington DC 8398 Image copyright: bobistraveling, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Maidu Indian Interpretive Center
Maidu Indian Interpretive Center submitted by Flickr : Soda Rock, Indian Creek Known as Ch'ichu'yam-bam to the Maidu people. Plumas County, Calfornia Image copyright: az3, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Maidu Indian Interpretive Center
Maidu Indian Interpretive Center submitted by Flickr : It's a Grind This is a photo of an Indian grinding rock that the native Maidu indians used to grind acorns into flour. It is in Roseville, smack dab in the middle of the urban jungle. The picture isn't great because I took it through a wrought-iron fence that surrounds it to protect it. How'd I ever find this? Geocaching, there is an Earthcache that explains the history and geological features of ... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Maidu Indian Interpretive Center
Maidu Indian Interpretive Center submitted by Flickr : Maidu Indian Interpretive Center, Roseville, CA Image copyright: uvw916a (Vince), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Maidu Indian Interpretive Center
Maidu Indian Interpretive Center submitted by Flickr : Petroglyphs at Maidu Historic Site These petroglyphs are located behind the Maidu Indian Museum in Roseville, California. Carved into sandstone about 5,000-10,000 years ago by prehistoric natives, this site was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. Record # 364185. The museum itself is new and very nice. I learned some interesting - and sad - facts about the indians n...

Do not use the above information on other web sites or publications without permission of the contributor.
Click here to see more info for this site

Nearby sites

Click here to view sites on an interactive map of the area

Key: Red: member's photo, Blue: 3rd party photo, Yellow: other image, Green: no photo - please go there and take one, Grey: site destroyed

Download sites to:
KML (Google Earth)
GPX (GPS waypoints)
CSV (Garmin/Navman)
CSV (Excel)

To unlock full downloads you need to sign up as a Contributory Member. Otherwise downloads are limited to 50 sites.


Turn off the page maps and other distractions

Nearby sites listing. In the following links * = Image available
 99.6km ESE 105° Miwok Salt Basins Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
 123.9km W 265° Knight's valley stone Rock Art
 133.6km SW 224° West Berkeley Shell Mound* Artificial Mound
 135.7km SW 223° Emeryville Shellmound* Artificial Mound
 142.1km SW 230° Ring Mountain Carving
 150.2km SSW 209° Coyote Hills Shellmound ALA 329* Artificial Mound
 153.9km W 275° Cloverdale Stone Rock Art
 164.2km WSW 254° Bodega Harbor Shellmound* Artificial Mound
 165.2km WSW 257° Duncans Landing Rockshelter* Cave or Rock Shelter
 165.3km WSW 254° Bodega Head Shellmound* Artificial Mound
 173.0km E 92° Pillars (Nevada)* Cairn
 192.4km S 191° Chitactac-Adams Heritage County Park* Ancient Village or Settlement
 198.6km SW 226° East Bay Walls* Stone Row / Alignment
 199.6km SSW 200° Scotts Valley City Hall Artifact Display* Museum
 211.0km SSW 202° Sand Hill Bluff Shellmound* Artificial Mound
 219.8km SSW 193° Moss Landing Shellmound* Artificial Mound
 228.6km NE 46° Winnemucca Lake Petroglyphs* Rock Art
 228.9km WNW 286° Van Damme State Park Shellmounds* Artificial Mound
 237.0km ENE 71° Grimes Point Arch. Area* Cave or Rock Shelter
 243.9km SSW 194° Monterey Indian Stone* Rock Art
 268.3km ENE 59° Lovelock Cave* Cave or Rock Shelter
 291.9km ESE 121° Bishop Eastern Sierra Petroglyphs* Rock Art
 307.8km NNW 345° Mount Shasta* Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
 326.3km NNW 345° Pluto's Cave* Cave or Rock Shelter
 339.9km NW 314° Indian Island Shellmounds* Artificial Mound
View more nearby sites and additional images

<< Crugiau Garn Fawr

Lamar Mounds >>

Please add your thoughts on this site

Long Barrows of the Cotswolds, Darvill

Long Barrows of the Cotswolds, Darvill

Sponsors

Auto-Translation (Google)

Translate from English into:

"Maidu Indian Interpretive Center" | Login/Create an Account | 1 comment
  
Go back to top of page    Comments are owned by the poster. We aren't responsible for their content.
Squirrels Unearth 8000 year old tool in California by bat400 on Monday, 16 July 2007
(User Info | Send a Message)
An amazing discovery has been unearthed in Placer County. Amazing because of its history significance....and amazing because of how it was found. Archaeologist did not carefully unearth the 8,000 to 10,000 year old artifact, but it appears some curious squirrels dug it up.

And now, folks at the Maidu Indian Interpretive Center are trying to preserve what the squirrels unearthed. The center allows people to learn how Native Americans lived thousands of years ago. And it was here that the squirrels made their find in what could be called an ancient compost pile.

"You can see where little tiny flakes have been knocked off to sharpen this or to give it a certain shape." explained Cultural Interpreter Rick Adams who stumbled up the unearthed artifact along the Maidu Nature Trail. It's a carefully carved tool or ceremonially object dating back an estimated 8,000 to 10,000 years. Experts say it appears to be partially volcanic and may have originated in the Rancho Murietta area about 20 miles from where it was discovered.

"We only find what the squirrels are giving us right now. And that's OK. We don't want to dig." said Park Specialist Chuck Kritzon.

While the officials running the Maidu Center know there are probably more artifacts in the park, it is illegally for humans to dig them up on the protected land.

For more, see the story by Dennis Shanahan, CBS television local reporter

This is a link
[ Reply to This ]

Your Name: Anonymous [ Register Now ]
Subject:


Add your comment or contribution to this page. Spam or offensive posts are deleted immediately, don't even bother

<<< What is five plus one as a number? (Please type the answer to this question in the little box on the left)
You can also embed videos and other things. For Youtube please copy and paste the 'embed code'.
For Google Street View please include Street View in the text.
Create a web link like this: <a href="https://www.megalithic.co.uk">This is a link</a>  

Allowed HTML is:
<p> <b> <i> <a> <img> <em> <br> <strong> <blockquote> <tt> <li> <ol> <ul> <object> <param> <embed> <iframe>

We would like to know more about this location. Please feel free to add a brief description and any relevant information in your own language.
Wir möchten mehr über diese Stätte erfahren. Bitte zögern Sie nicht, eine kurze Beschreibung und relevante Informationen in Deutsch hinzuzufügen.
Nous aimerions en savoir encore un peu sur les lieux. S'il vous plaît n'hesitez pas à ajouter une courte description et tous les renseignements pertinents dans votre propre langue.
Quisieramos informarnos un poco más de las lugares. No dude en añadir una breve descripción y otros datos relevantes en su propio idioma.