Editing Laguna Beach, California (section)

=== Tongva Era ===
Laguna Beach was the site of a prehistoric paleoindian civilization.<ref>{{cite book |title=Archaeology in America: An Encyclopedia |chapter=The Earliest Inhabitants and Sites |first1=Francis P. |last1=McManamon |first2=Linda S. |last2=Cordell |first3=Kent G. |last3=Lightfoot |first4=George R. |last4=Milner |publisher=[[Greenwood Publishing Group]] |date=December 2008 |isbn=978-0-313-33184-8 |page=22}}</ref> In 1933, the first fossilized skull of a paleoindian found in California was uncovered during construction on St. Ann's Drive.<ref>{{cite news |title=His 38-Year Affair With 'Laguna Woman'; Amateur Archaeologist Tells Affair With 'Laguna Woman' |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |last=Driscoll |first=Marjie |date=November 4, 1971 |page=H4}}</ref> Known as "Laguna Woman", the skull originally was [[Radiocarbon dating|radiocarbon dated]] to more than 17,000 [[Before Present|BP]], but revised measurements suggest it originated during the [[Holocene]] era, 11,700 years BP.<ref>{{cite book |title=Archaeological Chemistry |url=https://archive.org/details/archaeologicalch00poll_583 |url-access=limited |first1=A. Mark |last1=Pollard |first2=Carl |last2=Heron |publisher=[[Royal Society of Chemistry]] |year=2008 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/archaeologicalch00poll_583/page/n299 281]–84 |isbn=978-0-85404-262-3}}</ref> Subsequent research has found several prehistoric encampment sites in the area.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Chace |first=Paul G. |year=1965 |title=A History of Archaeology in Orange County |journal=Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly |volume=1 |issue=3 |pages=3–23 |issn=0552-7252 }}</ref>

The indigenous people of the Laguna Beach area were the Tongva. [[Aliso Creek (Orange County)|Aliso Creek]] served as a territorial boundary between [[Gabrieleno]] and [[Acjachemen]] groups, or [[Juanenos|Juaneños]], named by Spanish missionaries who first encountered them in the 1500s.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Cameron |first=Constance |title=Determining tribal boundaries through potsherds-an archaeological perspective |journal=Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly |volume=35 |issue=2/3 |year=1999 |pages=96–126 |issn=0552-7252 |url=http://www.pcas.org/Vol35N23/3523Cameron.pdf }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Archaeology in America: An Encyclopedia |first1=Francis P. |last1=McManamon |first2=Linda S. |last2=Cordell |first3=Kent G. |last3=Lightfoot |first4=George R. |last4=Milner |publisher=[[Greenwood Publishing Group]] |date=December 2008 |isbn=978-0-313-33184-8 |page=97}}</ref> The area of [[Laguna Canyon]] was named on an 1841 Mexican land grant map as {{lang|es|Cañada de las Lagunas}} (English: Glen of the Lagoons).<ref>{{cite book|last=Gudde|first=Erwin Gustav|title=California Place Names: The Origin and Etymology of Current Geographical Names|url=https://archive.org/details/californiaplacen0000gudd|url-access=registration|edition=3rd|year=1969|publisher=University of California Press|location=Berkeley and Los Angeles, California|page=[https://archive.org/details/californiaplacen0000gudd/page/170 170]}}</ref>