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A CALIFORNIA COLLECTION
WITH
COGGED STONES
7,500 TO 5,000 YEARS AGO
LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
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DECEMBER 31, 2011 PETER A. BOSTROM
This picture shows a portion of a
collection of artifacts that were collected on a site in Pasadena,
California in the late 1800's. The following description is from the
1900 issue of the "Report Of The
U.S. National Museum From The Director Of The Smithsonian Institution."
"Mr. Rust's collection also contains an interesting series of
objects from an ancient village site in the suburbs of Pasadena. In
this collection there are no globular mortars or cylindrical
pestles, but numerous mealing plates showing extensive use, and many
oblong and discoid mullers. Several annular and stellar shaped
stones (cogged stones) are unique. The whole group
seems to indicate a people related in many ways with the tribes of
the Sierra. The village site from which the specimens illustrated
were collected is situated on the bluff overlooking South Pasadena
and on the line of Buena Vista street. When the grading of the
street was underway Mr. Rust watched the work daily, saving more
than a hundred implements and utensils. He was able to even locate
some of the lodge sites by the larger number and greater variety of
specimens found within limited areas."
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