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A.C. Ziegler
1958
Journal
Feb. 9
(cont.)
Brooks Island, D to 10 ft, Contra Costa Co. (unit
Anderson apparently had been exposed by
waves washing away collapsing the
mound. He found no skull and after
I dug thru all the loose dirt below
the cavern I only found one loose
tooth and post of the lower jaw (to
which the tooth belonged) but no cranium.
It might have been washed away by
waves or it might still be buried in
some spot in which we had not dug.
Picked up many other bird & mammal
bones from mound -- gave bird bones
to Dick Banks at MVR.
Paul had found 2 pieces of (unworked?)
quartz x'm, a plumb-bag-like hollow
ornament?; a faint scraper or blade
knapped?; and a couple of long (8-10cm?)
crow bone needles on ribs in pelvic
region of skeleton. One of needles had
"eye" in it. He also noticed some redish
pigment which might have been a box
of paint ultimately buried with [illegible]
scraps some off one spat on a
rib bone where I noticed it. In digging
out a remaining foot of same skeleton I
found parts of another needle or two with
the foot bones. Also picked up a woodshovel