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There are professional standards in which archaeological site records are supposed to be prepared. A handbook is put out by the State Office of Historic Preservation that gives detailed instructions on how records are to be kept. • In the confidential appendix for the EIR, there are numerous measurement and locational errors. Sites are recorded on the basis of information generated in the 1920 ' s. One of these is the purported ethnographic Miwok tribal center. According to the map locations given by the individual who excavated over 2, 000 cubic feet at that site, the site is not in the project boundaries. It is important to find out the exact location of D23 this site. The project archaeologist put in generalized boundaries. One of these boundaries takes in about 66 acres. They have not identified where any of the habitation residue is located. They have not indicated any of the specific locations of the kitchen middens or debris piles left by native Americans. They have made no attempt to resolve the problems with the existing site records. Without knowing these things, there is no way the the County or the project applicant can decide where the road should be relocated and whether lots should be eliminated. • His soil tests revealed phosphates and carbonates. The project site is partly bounded by San Joaquin soils, which are 1 acidic or neutral in nature. Most archaeological sites that are fairly recent in time are highly alkaline in nature. With these kinds of soils it is possible to identify almost exactly D24 where the limits of a cultural deposit are located. i • California has virtually no natural phosphates. Areas identified with high phosphates are almost invariably archaeological sites. Phosphates do not leach out of the soil the way carbonates do. He has done soil tests on sites all over California. These tests reveal very clearly where the i sites end. PUBLIC HEARING CLOSED ' The hearing was adjourned at 8 : 15 p.m. Minutes - 5 - (ER-91-2) IV-5