Reports of the

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY

No. 19

PAPERS ON CALIFORNIA ARCHAEOLOGY: 19-20

Issued January 20, 1953

The University of California Archaeological Survey

Department of Anthropology

University of California
Berkeley 4. California

PAPERS IN CALIFORNIA ARCHAEOLOGY: 19-20

C o n t e n t s

Page

19. Clement W. Meighan.
20.  Robert J. Squier.

Preliminary Excavation at the

Thomas Site, Marin County............ 1

Appendix: Martin A Baumhoff,
Carbonized Basketry from the

Thomas S ite ... .....a.a.. . .. a.a *... ...a.................... 9
The Manufacture of Flint Im-
plements by the Indians of

Northern and Central California...... 15

Appendix: The Terminology and

Mineralogy of Chert and Flint........ 33

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

Following

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Map 1.
Map 2.

Plate 1.
Plate 2.

Figure 1.
Figure 2.
Figure 3.
Figure 4.
Figure 5.

Contour map of Thomas Site (Mrn-115)................. 14
Tribes mentioned in flint-chipping accounts .........POO 15
House ruin in Pit 7, Thomas Site.................... 14
Artifacts from Thomas Site.......................... 14
Cross-sections of Thomas Site....................... 14

Profiles showing internal construction of

mound (Mrn-115 ) 0                . . . . . . . . . . ... 0 0  14

Artifacts from Thomas Site  ........................ 14
Artifacts from Thomas Site......................... 14
Artifacts from Thomas Site   ........................ 14

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