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CONTRIBUTIONS

OF THE

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH FACILITY

Number 14

January, 1972

MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS ON ARCHAEOLOGY

Grateful acknowledgement is made to Dean Sanford S. Elberg, Graduate

Division, for a Grant-In-Aid to publish the present volume.

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
Department of Anthropology

Berkeley

CONTENTS

Page

I.    A STATISTICAL APPROACH TO DETERMINING WHICH MEMBERS

OF A GROUP OF BURIAL SITES ARE DISTINCT,

by Sonia Ragir and John Stromberg            ...... . 1

II.   CAN POTTERY RESIDUES BE USED AS AN INDEX TO POPULATION?

by Sherburne F. Cook ...................................... 17

III. A RADIOCARBON DATE FROM THE POINT ST. GEORGE SITE,

NORTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA,

by Richard A. Gould .......                                   41

IV.   THE RUMSEN OF MONTEREY, AN ETHNOGRAPHY FROM

HISTORICAL SOURCES,

by Sylvia M. Broadbent ......................                 45

V.    NOTES ON LARGE OBSIDIAN BLADE CORES AND

CORE-BLADE TECHNOLOGY IN MESOAMERICA,

by Thomas Roy Hester .95

VI.   PROBLEMS IN THE FUNCTIONAL INTERPRETATION OF ARTIFACTS:

SCRAPER PLANES FROM MITLA AND YAGUL, OAXACA,

by Thomas Roy Hester and Robert F. Heizer     .    .107