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3JNIVERS1TY OF CALIFORNIA
LARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY

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No. 9

PAPERS ON CALIFORNIA ARcHioLoGY: 6-9.

Issued Nov. 20, 1950

The University of C        lifornia Archaeological Survey

Department of Anthropology

University of California
Berkeley 4, California

PAPERS ON CALIFORNIA ARCHAEOLOGY: 6-9.

C o n t e n t s

Page
6, Robert F. ilcizer. Observations on Historic Sites and Archaeology

in California, ..... . .09 **  6     ,,, ... *.. . . . . . . . . .* . . . . . . . a . . . . 1

7. Robert F. Heizers Archacology of CCo-137, the "Concord Mann" site.. 6

Appendix I. R. E. Storie and F. Harradinc. An Age Estimate
of the Burials Unearthed near Concord, Cd ifornia, Bascd on

Pcdologic Observationsc . . t . ....e...........e.  ,  ,   ,1* * * ** 5

8. Donald Lathrap. A Disti4ctive Pictog-rph from the Carrizo Plains,

San Luis Obispo Coun`Ctr-  . .*.             .............,  . 20

9. Clement W. Meighan. Excavations in Sixtcnth Ccntury Shellmounds

at Drako's Bay, Marin County ..         ..       ..27

I 1 1 u s t r a t i o n s

Folloaring Page
Platc 1. Burials and stratification, site CCo-137

(for explanation see p. 9)     *    *...,..*.*999*****9       9

Plate 2. Topographic map and soil types in Concord region

(for explanation see p. 9) *.............................. 9
Plate 3. Pictograph from SLO-100          ,                            20

Figurc 1.
Figure 2.
Figure 3.
Figure 4h

Curve of ratc of soil profile development (top); plan of

excavations at CCo-137 (bottom)     ............................  6

Stratification profile (A-B line) along south wall of pool

(top); E-F profile of pool wall (bottom)                     6

Stratification profile along I-J linc, site CCo-137...on p. 13
Sequence of horizons of Tierra soil profile, site CCo-137...1