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AK Pearson
1969
vegetable gardens, big structures for raising
chickens, etc.
This afternoon we drove across the
road to an area where we thought there was
Jellandsia. Ray, Carol, & myself set out traps
while Betty, Don, Dicki & I went to do errands
in Chula (gas, matches, etc.). We met the
trappers in the same area at 5:30 - and
it turned out there wasn't Jellandsia there,
but what we took for Jellandsia at a distance
was cactus. We probed around a bit - in
several two places someone had been digging
and there were mounds of shells. The second
of these places we panned about further
and could find under the surface of the
ground, about 50 ft up a gradual hill,
plant remains, pieces of bark & wood, much
evidence of a fire, plus lots of shells - many
of them too small to have been food items.
Great arguments. My theory that the vegetation
had been lush at one point & burned over
was not widely accepted. Found (3) small
(3/4") mandibles with curving teeth set in
the - (leguat? fish?); also several scorpion
cast skins, little snail shells.
Set 5 snaf traps about house - outside.