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Bioarchaeological and Archaeological Analysis of Human Remains from a Medical Waste Deposit at Point San Jose, San Francisco (2024)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric J Bartelink. P Willey. Peter Gavette. Colleen F Milligan.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Life and Death in the San Francisco Bay: Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Historic Lifeways", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2010, human and faunal remains and medical waste were inadvertently discovered in a pit behind the historic military hospital at Point San Jose (now Fort Mason), San Francisco. The contents of the pit dated to the 1870s. In partnership with the National Park Service, Chico State...