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4.0 INVENTORY OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES <br /> Fifty years of archaeological site recording, rerecording, and misplotting has resulted in <br /> considerable confusion as to the actual number, location, and boundaries of prehistoric sites on <br /> the property, with existing records and reports containing conflicting information. Potentially, <br /> prehistoric sites were to be rerecorded, including those recorded in: 1929 (SJG <br /> 1949 (SJO 1981 (the "River Site" (which subsumed SJO- <br /> the "Lake Site" (which subsumed SJO- , SJO-� as <br /> well as 3 additional sites identified by Johnson (1992). <br /> BioSystems recent field work resulted in the identification of nine prehistoric sites (Map 7). It <br /> was not, and it may never be, possible to resolve some of the discrepancies between the early <br /> records and the present findings. <br /> 4.1 FINDINGS <br /> 4.1.1 - CA-SJO- (see Site Record, Appendix 2.1) <br /> This site consists of a midden soil containing shell and bone fragments as well as obsidian and <br /> chert flakes. Three large sized depressions and many smaller ones were noted. These <br /> depressions may be associated with semisubterranean structures such as assembly/dance houses, <br /> earth lodges, and sweat houses, ethnographically observed among the Miwok. CSUS students, <br /> visiting the site in 1971 and referencing it as TL- as well as SJO-. collected one bird bone <br /> fragment and noted a large house pit. <br /> 4.1.2 CA-SJO- (see Site Record, Appendix 2.2) <br /> This site, treated by Ananian and Rice (1992) as a subsumation of three mounds originally <br /> recorded as discrete sites SJO- - , is referred to as the "River Site". Only a portion <br /> of this site lies within the boundaries of the Buckeye Ranch. As such, the new site record <br /> 19 <br />