FINAL REPORT IS WRITTEN ON OLD SHELL-MOUND shellmound - The Times - San Mateo, California 17 Dec 1926
FINAL REPORT IS WRITTEN ON OLD SHELL-MOUND
By United Press
BERKELEY, Cal. Dec. 17. - Probably the last word has been said concerning Indians who inhabited the shores of San Francisco bay, in “Final Report on Emeryville Shellmound," compiled by Egbert Scheney of the University of California.
Material for the report was gathered by painstaking scrutiny of the "Emeryville shellmound" during its recent leveling, and recording all that was revealed of the area's former inhabitants.
Schenck estimated the mound and the material around it contained 6,000,000 cubic feet of shell, ashes. bones and camp dirt and represented accumulation of 1000 years. In his report he described The Indians who camped there in certain seasons as far back as the year when Denmark was making its last attempt to conquer Britam in the tenth century, A. D.
The shore line at that time was 1500 feet farther out in the bay than at present, Schenck estimated. Bay waters abounded in sea otter, now extinct, and salmon and other varieties of fish spawned in creeks emptying into the bay.
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