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1' ceremonies, are common. A typical site is CA-SAC-0066 (Morse Mound) . Primary references include Beardsley (1948 , 1954) , and Schenck and Dawson (1929) . r r. . Late Horizon: A.D. 800-A.D. 1820: Cremations prominent; material culture includes"quantities of shell beads; serrated, small projectile points; bowl mortars, pestles, steatite pipes. Typical sites: CA-CCO-0138 (Hotchkiss) and CA-STA-0044 (Hoods jj Creek) . Primary references include Bennyhoff (1977) , and Fredrickson (1973) . The California "horizons", their salient cultural traits or characteristics, the time periods subsumed by each and many other topics concerning them have been extensively discussed in the California archaeological literature (Moratto 1984) . In 1972-, lrt Sonia Ragir termed these"entities "cultures"--the Windmiller, Cosumnes, and Hotchkiss cultures, respectively. Fredrickson �-- (1973) identifies them as widespread "patterns"--the Windmiller, Berkeley, and Augustine patterns. For additional information, consult Beardsley (1948, 1954) , Fredrickson (1973) , Gerow and Force (1968) , Lillard et al. (1939) , Moratto (1984) , and Ragir J (1972) . Early archaeological remains (that is, remains attributable to a PaleoIndian or early-hunter cultural phase) are scarce in ti the region in which the proposed project is located. Local finds include a possible fluted projectile point from the shore of former take Tracy, characterized by Heizer (1938 : 180-182) as 11" "Folsom-like, " and a crescentic implement (comparable to artifacts found elsewhere and of considerable antiquity) is reported from the same area (Beck 1971: 154-176) . These finds are tantalizing, but do not persuasively establish early human of this part of the Central Valley. More substantial is the presence of remains attributed to the Early Horizon (the "Windmiller Pattern") , the earliest well-established cultural manifestation in the Central Valley (Heizer 1974) . �; The Windmiller pattern takes its name from the owner of the i Windmiller Ranch in Sacramento County, where some of the earliest � archaeological investigations conducted in the g q region (Lillard et' Aaal. 1939) revealed substantial evidence of a prehistoric culture that apparently flourished in the Central Valley, particularly in r the Stockton delta region but elsewhere as well, from approximately 2500 B.C. to the beginning of the Christian era. -=-, Unfortunately, fewer than a dozen sites occupied by Windmiller F people are known: six of these are located in San Joaquin County near or within the city limits of Stockton. Among these are the oldest known Windmiller site, the Blossom Mound (CA-SJO-0068) (Ragir 1972) , and one of the most recent of the Windmiller sites, �1 f '