PREPARES REPORT OF SHELL MOUNDS - The Berkeley Gazette, 16 Sep 1908

PREPARES REPORT ON SHELLMOUNDS

The survey of the Indian shellmounds about the bay, which has been going on for some time under the supervision of the department of anthropology, has been completed and N. C. Nelson, who was in charge of the work, is preparing his report.

Nearly 300 of these shellmounds about San Francisco bay have been located and mapped. Many of these mounds have been carted away to serve as road material, but traces of them were left. Numbers of them, by their thickness and depth, indicate great antiquity. They also show that many Indians must have been in these regions in an early day. The work has been under the immediate supervision of J. C. Merriam, associate professor of paleontology.

PREPARES REPORT OF SHELL MOUNDS shellmound J. C. Merriam 16 Sep 1908, Wed The Berkeley Gazette (Berkeley, California) Newspapers.com