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prepared by BioSystem represents only that portion of the site within the Buckeye Ranch <br /> property boundaries. This portion consists of two loci of midden soil linked by a very sparse <br /> scatter of shell (probably due to leveling activities in the 1960s). The wester locus may have <br /> been initially recorded by Schenck and Dawson (1929) as SJO- The eastern locus is the <br /> periphery of a large midden which extends into the adjacent property, and probably represents <br /> SJO- The location of the "River Site" correlates with the reported ethnographic Plains <br /> Miwok village of Seuamne (Bennyhoff 1977:113), as shown in Map 8. <br /> Over the years, a number of excavations have been conducted by the following persons and <br /> institutions: Elmer Dawson; UCB field parties; Don McGeein and Marie Moyer; and weekend <br /> relic hunters. Most excavations have focused on the original locus of SJO- , which proved to <br /> yield more artifacts. The UCB L.owie Museum has acquired a large collection representing <br /> materials from SJO- including: Haliotis shell pendants, ornaments, discs,fllivella <br /> shell beads, clam disk beads, bone awls, bone whistles, bone beads, horn tools, a wolf tooth <br /> ornament, bone ear plugs, magnetite beads, various clay artifacts (balls, doughnuts, and <br /> handgrips), plummet stones, manos, pestles, mortars, stone rings, pipes, scrapers, and obsidian <br /> and chert projectile points. Twenty-two burials were exhumed from SJO- by Dawson in the <br /> 1920s (Schenck and Dawson 1929:343). An additional 12 burials were excavated in the 1970s <br /> by McGeein at a location which appears to be between the original plottings for SJ4 <br /> (Personal Communication 1992). <br /> Schenck and Dawson (1929:319) noted that two definite depressions, such as might result from <br /> house pits, were discernible; one each on the surface of mounds SJO- - and SJO- , both 30 <br /> cm in depth, and 8 to 9 m in diameter. These depressions, long since destroyed, may have <br /> been associated with semisubterranean structures such as assembly/dance houses or earth lodges, <br /> ethnographically observed among the Miwok. <br /> 21 <br />