This article is about the archaeological site in Lake County, California. For other uses, see Borax Lake (disambiguation).
United States historic place
Borax Lake Site
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark
Borax Lake
Nearest city
Clearlake, California
NRHP reference No.
91001424
Significant dates
Added to NRHP
October 3, 1991[1]
Designated NHL
September 20, 2006[2]
The Borax Lake Site, also known as the Borax Lake—Hodges Archaeological Site and designated by the Smithsonian trinomial CA-LAK-36, is a prehistoric archaeological site near Clearlake, California. The site, a deeply stratified former lakeshore, contains evidence of the earliest known period of human habitation in what is now California, dating back 12,000 years. A portion of the site, designated a National Historic Landmark in 2006, is owned and preserved by the Archaeological Conservancy.
^"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
^"Borax Lake Site". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Archived from the original on November 14, 2007. Retrieved November 17, 2007.
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years ago. Excavation sites are around Clear Lake and BoraxLake. The Post Pattern is a local manifestation of the Western Pluvial Lakes Tradition. It is believed...
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National Reserve and close to the border with Chile. The lake contains borax islands, whose white color contrasts with the reddish color of its waters...
minerals, such as borax and various salts and hydrates. The largest salt pan in the park extends 40 miles (64 km) from the Ashford Mill Site to the Salt Creek...
leaving an abundance of evaporitic salts, such as common sodium salts and borax, which were later exploited during the modern history of the region, primarily...
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to the BoraxLake Complex and Post Pattern. In the Mojave Desert and the lower Great Basin, such remains are now most frequently termed the Lake Mohave...
specifically borax. Borax is fairly toxic at high dosages to animals such as the Andean flamingo, but not to humans. Studies testing the effects of borax exposure...
manager of the Pacific Coast Borax Company in the early 20th century. The company's twenty-mule teams were used to transport borax from its mining operations...
superfund site in 1990. Although the hot springs of the Sulphur Bank contained borax, the search led John Allen Veatch to nearby BoraxLake where the...
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