January 16, 2025
Volume 55 - No. 3
SAN DIEGO’S FIRST PEOPLE
Kumeyaay Cosmology Dome at the Museum of Us By Friedrich Gomez San Diego’s first people have lived here for several millennia; a prehistoric people who are believed to have migrated here during the Ice Age when there was a land bridge at a time when glaciers and ice sheets covered a large area of our planet. Using this land bridge, called the Bering Land Bridge, which during the Pleistocene era (Ice Age) connected Asia to North America, these ancient people who crossed over from Asia are believed to have migrated from the north into the area
Kumeyaay Pictographs
now known as San Diego, and as far south as the northern tip of Baja California, Mexico.
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These prehistoric people are known today as Native Americans called Kumeyaay aka Diegueno, and their rich history as San Diego’s first people has fascinated countless millions of San Diegans – as well as incoming tourists – all of whom have visited our many museums every year in recordbreaking numbers, most notably at the San Diego Museum of Us, located in our world-famous Balboa Park.
ANCIENT KUMEYAAY ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORIES DISCOVERED STUNS MODERN SCIENCE.
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Primarily hunters and gatherers, these ancient Kumeyaay who lived in our region several millennia ago would startle the world of science by creating a most advanced and complex system of astronomy whose calculations and precise movement of the planets, stars, and even pre-
dicting solar and lunar eclipses -- would all prove to be incredibly accurate, as confirmed by today’s science. The first evidence of Kumeyaay astronomical observatories was discovered in the El Vallecito Archeological Zone in the city of La Rumorosa, at the Tecate Municipality of Baja California, Mexico. Inside one of the caves, there is a Kumeyaay painting of a strange, anthropomorphic (human-like) figure on a rock wall. The humanoid drawing has black eyes with what
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