Skull Blogging*

Damn. We (almost) wouldn't mind having a yard if we could find this sort of thing in it.

A South Pasadena resident and a landscaper found a skull in a backyard that authorities believe is Native American and likely belonged to a Gabrieleno/Tongva of San Gabriel. The Los Angeles County Coroners Office will make a final determination once an anthropologist examines it. (Courtesy South Pasadena Police Department)

Because if nothing else, we'd shoot it from a better angle than the SPPD crime scene photog.

Actual chance of finding one? Not that slim.

About 10 police cars, coroner's officials and a crime-scene investigation team appeared t [sic] the woman's house in the 1600 block of Milan Avenue after she called police. But there was no evidence of a crime.

Rare? Hardly. The Native American Heritage Council is notified of about four such bodies each month. Officials were relatively certain the skull belonged to a member of the Gabrielino-Tongva tribe.

About 400 remains of Gabrielino-Tongva tribal ancestors, the original inhabitants of the Los Angeles basin, were found in 2004 as work on the $4 billion dollar Playa Vista development began, according to the Associated Press, the article reports.

*An homage, not theft. Note well the fair use disclaimer at the bottom.