Finished! Looks like this project is out of data at the moment!
Thank you so much to everyone who participated in Sedimental Values! All of these pages are now transcribed.
Help us record 40 years of late Pleistocene (last Ice Age) fossil findings from the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, California
Learn moreYou can do real research by clicking to get started here!
Zooniverse Talk
Chat with the research team and other volunteers!
Sedimental Values: Digging In to La Brea’s Past Statistics
View more statsKeep track of the progress you and your fellow volunteers have made on this project.
Every click counts! Join Sedimental Values: Digging In to La Brea’s Past's community to complete this project and help researchers produce important results. Click "View more stats" to see even more stats.
By the numbers
Message from the researcher
Help us plan for La Brea's future by transcribing field notes from the past! This project makes a unique dataset available, which will allow collections staff to plan for future curatorial work – and analyze the way that the fossil deposits formed.
Sedimental Values: Digging In to La Brea’s PastAbout Sedimental Values: Digging In to La Brea’s Past
In Los Angeles, California sits the Rancho La Brea Tar Pits, an abundant late Pleistocene (last Ice Age) fossil site. Paleontologists have been collecting and cataloguing fossils at the site since 1913. A large challenge for modern museums is the digitization of their collection records. Buried within a hundred years of typed pages of fossils and geology samples from La Brea are data about exactly where and how each specimen was found in the ground. Sedimental Values will capture 40 years of fossil field data from Pit 91, allowing the museum to plan for preparation and curation of this period of collection. The project will allow the curators, researchers, and students to ask new, richer research questions about Paleoecology in Southern California.