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A.C. [illegible]
1948
Homo sapiens americanus
Brevous Island, O' Ft., Courte Costa Co, Calif.
Jan 18
Dug out skeleton of body from wrist and elbows up from a 12 to 15 ft. thick bank of shells and dirt on N tip of island. Body was less than a foot above HI HIGHEST TIDE MARK THAT DAY at least. Paul Anderson had seen distal tip of radius, proximal tip of ulna & proximal tip of tibia sticking out of bank before he had taken them out. Dug around some more and not finding anything else had left bones 100 ft or so away along beach where I found them somewhat bleached. I saw, in the spot Paul points out, the tip of a humerus sticking out - almost certainly of the same side to which Paul's find belonged - and one in here. Top of cranium pointed roughly W + face was towards south as skull lay on its side apparently. No pelvis or leg bones found, nor hand or foot bones - perhaps these all had been washing out of tide-cut bank when Paul had found the limb bones. The fact that legs, pelvis & distal arm bones were gone makes it appear that perhaps skull was lying on its side in a arms-around-knees position or some.