Newswise — The Office of Communications and Marketing has developed a press site offering a variety of different media resources from the Lubbock Lake National Historic Landmark.
The website, today.ttu.edu/landmark, hosts high-resolution photos of the Landmark from past to present, a history of the Landmark, recent news and an event schedule for 2011.
Throughout 2011, Lubbock Lake Landmark will be celebrating 75 years of Discoveries with events for families and adults each month of the year. March’s events are 10 a.m.-4 p.m. March 19 and 2-4 p.m. March 20.
A unit of the Museum of Texas Tech University, the Lubbock Lake Landmark is an archaeological and natural history preserve at the northern edge of the city of Lubbock. The Landmark contains evidence of almost 12,000 years of occupation by ancient people on the Southern High Plains, said Eileen Johnson, director of the landmark.
“For thousands of years, people on the Southern High Plains used the water resources in the draw until those resources went dry in the early 1930s,” Johnson said. “Years of sediment covered the traces of human activity until 1936, when the city of Lubbock dredged the meander in an effort to revitalize the underground springs. And that led to the discovery of the largest, most complex and longest continuously inhabited hunter-gatherer site in the New World.”
In addition, find of other Texas Tech media are available for your use at www.media.ttu.edu and on Twitter at twitter.com/texastechmedia.
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