carousel-international-archaeology-day-in-the-presidio.jpg — Sat, October 26, 2019
11:00 AM – 2:00 PM PDT
Help Presidio Trust archaeologists celebrate International Archaeology Day with a variety of hands-on activities for all ages. Meet local archaeologists and take a look behind the scenes in the Presidio Archaeology Lab. This event is an open house and is hosted in collaboration with the Bay Area Science Festival.

Dig Into The Bay Area’s Past

There are many places around the Bay Area offer family-friendly historic and/or archaeological trails and exhibits.

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The California Historical Society is a non-profit gallery, bookstore, public research library and archive. Our mission is to inspire and empower people to make California's richly diverse past a meaningful part of their contemporary lives.

California Historical Society

RING MOUNTAIN PRESERVE

Ring Mountain Preserve

RING MOUNTAIN PRESERVE

A Miwok village site on Ring Mountain has been dated to 370 BC. Petroglyph Rock is an important archeological artifact.

RING MOUNTAIN PRESERVE

Kule Loklo Trail

As you explore Kule Loklo, try to imagine the lives of the people who lived so intimately with the land. In the old days, a village like Kule Loklo would have been a busy place... acorns being pounded into meal by women with stone mortar and pestle, basket weavers chatting as they worked under the sun shade, cooking fires smoking with mussels baking or deer roasting, children laughing and playing , new dancers learning songs and steps in the dance house, hunters flaking obsidian for knife blades.

Kule Loklo Trail

College of Marin

Miwok Archeological Preserve of Marin

College of Marin

Through a diverse range of programs and cooperative efforts, with groups such as the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria (Coast Miwoks) and the Point Reyes National Seashore, MAPOM seeks to promote accurate knowledge of the Coast Miwok Indians, the first people of Marin and southern Sonoma counties.

College of Marin

Miwok Park

Museum of the American Indian

Miwok Park

The Native American artifacts and reference materials are irreplaceable and provide a unique opportunity to learn about the local native lifeways.

Miwok Park

Oakland Museum

The Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) brings together collections of art, history and natural sciences under one roof to tell the extraordinary stories of California and its people. OMCA connects collections and programs across disciplines, advancing an integrated, multilayered understanding of this ever-evolving state. With more than 1.8 million objects, OMCA is a leading cultural institution of the Bay Area and a resource for the research and understanding of California's dynamic cultural and environmental heritage.

Oakland Museum

China Camp State Park

The Miwok had dozens of small villages scattered throughout Marin and southern Sonoma Counties, including several in the vicinity of China Camp.

China Camp State Park

Pierce Point Ranch

Established in 1858, Pierce Ranch (aka Pierce Point Ranch) was the largest of four independent ranches on the the Point Reyes peninsula in the late 1800s.

Pierce Point Ranch

Marin History Museum

Through exhibitions and educational programs built around the expertise of noted historians and an unparalleled collection, the Museum inspires honor for the past, an understanding of the present and an imagination of the future.

Marin History Museum

San Francisco Historical Society

The San Francisco Historical Society’s mission is to preserve, interpret, present, and disseminate historical data, information, and knowledge relating to the City and County of San Francisco so as to enhance the experience of living in or visiting San Francisco.

San Francisco Historical Society

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