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The British Museum Collection from near Avila, California

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Arnold R. Pilling
Arnold R. Pilling*
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Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
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Archaeological specimens from the United States, now in European museums, are generally unavailable to American scholars. The writer, while resident in England during 1950 and 1951, made a consistent attempt to view and describe American archaeological material which was unique in his experience. A few of the notes collected at the British Museum are presented below.

The specific specimens discussed here are from the region of Avila, San Luis Obispo County, California, a coastal area lying about 140 miles north-west of Los Angeles, 180 miles south-east of San Francisco, and 18 miles north of the Point Sal area described by Carter (1941).

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American Antiquity , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , October 1952 , pp. 169 - 172
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1952

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