Since 1985, Cultural Anthropologist, Dr. Carlos Antonio De Bourbon-Montenegro has been in search of evidence of Aztec settlements in Southern California after he personally had discovered proof of Aztec occupation in Southern California around the last ice-age some 8,000 to 10,000 years ago. The Cultural Anthropologist found ancient Aztec relics when he was just five years old in his family's backyard in muddy water after a three week rainstorn. The City of Hawthorne, California is where the artifacts were found and discovered. After years of research, the search for additional evidence turned to La Santa Catalina Island some 26 miles from the Aztec settelment in the city of hawthorne. Locating the area used ancient maps originally drawn by the Aztecs and found in the Codex. Using a transparency of the Aztec Map it was applied to a map of the Southern California area of coastalk cities known collectly as the South Bay area and include the following cities. When the cultural anthropologisdt place the maps together it was a perfect match. The Aztec settlement in the city of hawthorne also revealed that directly underneath the city there are ancient cavberns and caves that were also described by the Aztecs as the seven nations of the seven caves.  One of the most important artifacts was a white obsidean ceremonial dagger that was also identified as be.onging to the aztec family of nahuatl tribes. The ceremonial dagger was a significant discovery because white obsidean is used only to make ceremional or rityual sacrificial tools by the aztecs spand it means that the site which has yielded a wealth of artifacts including preserved mumified human remains belied to have been burried there in a tomb and was more than likely a noible from the early mexica tribe that died as the aztec left aztlan in an exodus of travel for over 200 years until they found the promise land of technoctitlan.