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P.C.Zieber
1958
Homo Sapiens Americanus
Brooks Island, 0+ ft. Corner Cosmo Co., Cal. f.
Jan. 18 (cont.)
About 50 to 75 ft. away from other skeleton that they were mostly bones of a human foot (metatarsals, calcaneum & phalanges) but also includes distal tip of (probably) clavicle + the side of the right orbit of skull (= parietal)
Also found charcoal among bones + an old style cork 1/2 pt. whiskey bottle and a sawed pig or sheep(?) vertebra. Seems as if garbage had been mixed in at a later date with an old Indian burial. A hole 2 ft across x 2 ft. deep had already been dug just below the bones I found and, as the jugum frag. showed above + shearing it might have been part of a skull dug out of this hole before. This part skeleton was about 5 ft. above the level of the first over dug out but only a foot or so from top of mound since mound had "thinned" down to about 6 or 7 ft. high at this spot. These last mentioned frag given one # (A.C.Z. 994) altho they might not belong to just one individual. Skull + feet side. Mentions on preceding pages is # 993 A.C.Z.
Feb 9 dug up an infant and an adult skeleton today and also completed rest of skeleton found by Park Anderson last weekend. See my Journal this date for further information,