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Number 33                           December 1976

EXPERIMENT AND FUNCTION: FOUR CALIFORNIA STUDIES

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CONTRIBUTIONS

OF THE

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

ARCHAEOLOGICAL ]RESEARCH FACILITY

Number 33

December 1976

EXPERIMENT AND FUNCTION: FOUER CALIFORNIA STUDIES

Thomas R. Hester

W. I. Follett

Robert F. Heizer
Elizabeth Wuertele

Lee Spencer
Colin Busby
James Bard

Alice B. Francisco

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
Department of Anthropology

Berkeley

TABLE OF CONTENTS

YUROK FISH KNIVES: A STUDY OF WEAR PATTERNS
AND ADHER ING SALMON SCALES

Thomas R. Hester and W. I. Follett ............................... 1

UNIFACIAL COBBLE TOOLS FROM THE NORTHWEST
CALIFORNIA COAST: EXPERIMENTAL AND WEAR
PATTERN NOTES

Thomas R. Hester, Elizabeth Wuertele, and

Robert F. Heizer .o................. ... . ....... .oo..o.oooo. ,25

BUTCHERING A DEER WITH OBSIDIAN TOOLS

Thomas R. Hester, Lee Spencer, Colin Busby

and James Bard . . . . . . . . .o. . . . . . . . . . . .o. . . . . . . . . .&. .o. . . . 45

THE DISTRIBUTION AND FUNCTION OF BEDROCK
MORTARS IN CALIFORNIA

Alice  B.  Francisco  ................................ .  57