Reports of the

LNIVERSITY OFIIALIFORNIA
ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY

No. 7

PAPERS ON CALIFORNIA ARCHAEOLOGY: 1-5

Issued June 10, 1950

The University of Cal~fornia Archaeological Survey

Department of Anthropology

University of California
Berkeley 4. California

PAPERS ON CALInORNIA ARCHAEOLOGY:

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1. Sherburne F. Cook. Physical Analysis as a Method for

Investigating Prehistoric Habitation Sites. * . 4 6 . . .   . .. . .   * .

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2.  Robert F. Heizer. Observations on Early Man In California......  S

3* Robert F. Heizer.   On the Methods of Chemical Analysis of

Bone as an Aid to Prehistoric Culture Chronoyog.........y. 10

4. Clement A. Heighan. Ob~ervations on the Efficiency of Shovel

Archaeology........&..........w............................... 15

5* John E. Mills. Recent Developments in the Study of

Northwestern California Archaeology ....................... 21

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Map Showing Approximate Location of Sites Referred to in

This Report ....... . . ., * ....... ..Following title page

These 5 papers were .presented at the Second Annual Meeting of the Western

States. Branch of the American Anthropological Association held in Berkeley,
February 3.4, 1950. Site designations in the form of a number prefixed by

an abbreviation of a county name are those based upon the system employed by
the UC-kS as described in its Report No. 5, 1949. The state map accompanying
the present report shows the location of the various archaeological sites
mentioned in the papers which appear below.

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MAP SHOWING APPROXIMATE
LOCATION OF SITES REFERRED

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