Report On the Excavation of Marin-374, Marin County, California

Author(s): Novato Senior High Archaeology Club

Editor(s): Terrence O'Neil

Year: 1967

Summary

The site designated Marin-374 is located approximately ten miles northwest of Novato, California, about one-half mile west of the U.S. Highway 101. The site was first worked by a team from the Novate Senior High Archaeology Club on July 18, 1966. At that time, there existed in the locality of the site only a house pit and a test pit dug earlier by a group from the Northwestern California Archaeological Society. Marin-374 is a single-component, proto-historic deposit left by the Coastal Miwok culture.

Cite this Record

Report On the Excavation of Marin-374, Marin County, California. Novato Senior High Archaeology Club, Terrence O'Neil. Novato Senior High School. 1967 ( tDAR id: 14494) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8833SW1

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Keywords

Culture
Miwok

Material
Basketry • Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Fauna • Fire Cracked Rock • Ground Stone • Shell

Site Name
Marin-374

Site Type
Domestic Structures • Funerary and Burial Structures or Features • House Mound • Mound / Earthwork • Pit House / Earth Lodge

Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation

General
Awls • basketry impressions • Charmstones • Mortar • Olivella Beads • Pestles • Pipe Fragments • Saxidomus Beads

Geographic Keywords
06041 (Fips Code) • California (State / Territory) • Marin (County) • North America (Continent) • United States of America (Country)

Temporal Keywords
Proto Historic

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: 1760 to 1810 (mound base formation)

Spatial Coverage

min long: -123.135; min lat: 37.815 ; max long: -122.347; max lat: 38.321 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Terrence O'Neil

Contributor(s): Northwestern California Archaeological Society

Landowner(s): Anthony Veronda

Sponsor(s): Tom King

Record Identifiers

NADB document id number(s): 1188987

NADB citation id number(s): 000000156468

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