Field notes, v1516
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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.