The Topanga Culture: Final Report on Excavations, 1948

CONTENTS

		Page
Introduction		45
Review of Earlier Work at the Tank Site		47
Location and Description of Sites		47
Summary of Sites		51
Field Techniques		51
Features		53
Burials		54
Description of Artifacts		55
Flaked Tools		55
Scraper Planes		56
Scrapers		56
Choppers		59
Crescentic Stone or “Amulet”		59
Drill or Reamer		59
Hand Pick		59
Projectile Points		59
Small “Dart” Points		61
Large Blades and Large Points		61
Ground or Pecked Stone		63
Manos and Metates		63
Mortars		65
Pestles		65
Abrading Stones		65
Cog Stones		65
Stone Disks		66
Rubbing Stones		67
Core Hammerstones		67
Cobble Hammerstones		67
Slate Pendants		67
Miscellaneous Artifacts		67
Bone Implements		68
Other Remains		68
Unworked Bone and Shell		68
Fossil Remains		68
Pigments		68
Excavation of Site LAn-2		69
Disposal of the Dead		70
Description of Artifacts		70
Flaked Tools		70
Projectile Points		70
Ground or Pecked Stone		71
Metates		71
Manos		71
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