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BioSystems Analysis, Inc. Permanent Trinomial: . -Supplement W
<br /> ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE RECORD Other Designation: River Site
<br /> (DPR 422, Rev. 4/86) Page 4 of 9
<br /> 30. Remarks:
<br /> (1) Ananian and Rice (1991) recorded a large area which they referred to as the "River
<br /> Site", subsuming 3 previously recorded sites They
<br /> describe this area as a large habitation site which may have been the Plains Miwok village
<br /> of Seuamne (see Map 4: Ethnographic map).
<br /> (2) UC Berkeley's Lowie Museum has acquired a large collection representing materials
<br /> from Including: Haliotis shell pendants, ornaments, discs, Olivella shell
<br /> 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, hand
<br /> grip), plummet stones, manos, pestles, mortars, stone rings, pipes, scrapers, and obsidian
<br /> and chert projectile points.
<br /> (3) Sacramento State University students visited this site location in the spring of 1971, and
<br /> surface collected materials from
<br /> on a bench and river channel downstream from- as well
<br /> as These collected materials
<br /> included projectile points, flakes, cores, bone and baked clay fragments, pestle fragments,
<br /> handstone fragments, a haliotis pendant, a steatite pipe fragment, and a saxidomus clam
<br /> shell bead.
<br /> 31. References:
<br /> 1991 Ananian, B., and C. Rice, "Archaeological Field Investigation Buckeye Ranch
<br /> Project Phase 1 Study" (DRAF1). MS. on file, San Joaquin County Community
<br /> Development Department, Stockton, California.
<br /> 1977 Bennyhoff, James A. Ethnogeography of the Plains Miwok. Center for
<br /> Archaeological Research at Davis, Publication No. 5, University of California,
<br /> Davis.
<br /> 1951 Cook, S.F., and R.F. Heizer. The Physical Analysis of Mme Indian Mounds of
<br /> the Lower Sacramento Valley. Berkeley: University of California Publications
<br /> in Archaeology and Ethnology 400:281-311.
<br /> 1971 Field notes by Sacramento State University students, under the guidance of John
<br /> Beck. MS. on file, California State University, Sacramento, Anthropology
<br /> Department.
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