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It has been a while since I was at Long Beach State, but, I seem to remember that outside of Calico Ghosttown was an Archeological site called the Early Man Site. At this site Leaky had supposedly dated a fire pit at 35,000 years. I also had display, for a curating class, at El Camino College, in which I showed a Stone Anchor. It was found along with others off the coast of California. Initial information out of San Diego by a professor Moriarity, for sure, traced the stone to a quarry in China. Supposedly a journal was found in China in which a trip was made to, what is now Baja, Calif. with discriptions also of the Grand Canyon. I my self did not look into this but the director of the Natural History Museum, in LA., a Mr. Charlie Rosier, did. I've always thought it was interesting.

Calico Early Man Archaeological Site

Location: Barstow, California
Calico Early Man Archaeological Site More than 12,000 stone tools dating back perhaps 200,000 years have been located in an excavation begun in 1964 by Dr Louis Leakey. It is one of the oldest sites of prehistoric tools

http://www.caohwy.com/c/caleamas.htm

If you are interested in archaeological things about the area you described read the book, Earlier Than You Think, by George Carter. There are some truly amazing things in that area. (FReeper SurferDoc recommended the book to me, outstanding read)