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CIOA Receives Media Coverage for Local Work

by shauna — last modified March 02, 2009 11:09 AM

By Shauna K. Mecartea
Date: 3/2/09

CIOA Receives Media Coverage for Local Work

Home base of the La Señora Research Institute and location of original GPR workshop.

Last Thursday, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology (CIOA) Research Associates and geophysicists Dean Goodman and Brian Damiata returned to a Los Angeles historic cemetery, the Marquez Family Cemetery, in Santa Monica Canyon with Research Associate Hans Barnard helping them to use Ground Penetrating Radar to identify lost burials at the site.

For more information on the project, visit: Archaeologists join hunt for long-lost burials in historic cemetery

Watch some of the TV coverage of the event online:

CBS

Original LA Family's Burial Ground Found?

Telemundo
Cementerio Angelino

: Participants get trained using GPR equipment

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