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An Early Complex in San Diego County, California

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

D. L. True
D. L. True*
Affiliation:
Pauma Valley, Calif.
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The archaeology of the San Luis Rey Basin is characterized by a series of sites which for the most part conform to the San Luis Rey complexes described by Meighan (1954). San Luis Rey I is characterized by dark, sooty midden deposits containing small pressure flaked projectile points, manos, portable metates, spire-lopped and disc beads of Olivella, drilled stone ornaments, and portable and bedrock mortars with unshaped cobble pestles. San Luis Rey II contains all of the above elements plus pottery, pictographs, and historical artifacts on the terminal sites. The physical locations for San Luis Rey sites seldom deviate from streamside locations in close proximity to boulder outcroppings suitable for bedrock mortars and shelter.

Type
Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , January 1958 , pp. 255 - 263
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1958

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