VILLAGES ON BAY FOR 4000 YEARS - Oakland Tribune, 06 Apr 1912

VILLAGES ON BAY FOR 4000 YEARS

Life of Pioneer Shown in the Collection Assembled by U. C. Investigators.

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, April 6. - That villages have clustered about the shores of San Francisco bay for at least 4000 years is declared by the anthropologists of the University of California. To show the ways of life of these pioneer Californians, the university has assembled in the revolving exhibit room in the museum of anthropology (at the Affiliated Colleges on Parnassus avenue, San Francisco), a collection of the "Bedrocks of California History."

Excavation of shell mounds yielded these antiquities. Shells and bones and kitchen refuse, thrown out by centuries of aboriginal housewives, form the shellmounds, such as that at Emeryville, on the Berkeley shore, which mark the sites of vanished Indian villages. In the university collection are sections of shellmounds, old fireplaces, hut floors, weapons, cooking utensils, and not only the implements, but the skulls and skeletons of the townsfolk of a San Francisco which was peopled a thousand years before Rome or Athens had their beginnings.

The museum makes no charge for admission. May 5 the present special exhibit will be replaced with another collection. The great museum collection given by Mrs. Hearst, with contents valued at several million dollars, is open all the year round, daily except Monday. It is particularly rich in its collections from Greece, Egypt, Italy, Peru, Alaska and aboriginal America,

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