THE TOPANGA CULTURE
FINAL REPORT ON EXCAVATIONS, 1948

BY
A. E. TREGANZA AND A. BIERMAN

ANTHROPOLOGICAL RECORDS
Vol. 20, No. 2

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
ANTHROPOLOGICAL RECORDS
Editors (Los Angeles): C. W. Meighan, Harry Hoijer, Eshref Shevky
Volume 20, No. 2, pp. 45-86, plates 17-24, 6 figs., 3 maps
Submitted by editors July 15, 1957
Issued March 27, 1958
Price, $1.00

University of California Press
Berkeley and Los Angeles
California
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		Page
Introduction		[45]
Review of Earlier Work at the Tank Site		[47]
Location and Description of Sites		[47]
Summary of Sites		[51]
Field Techniques		[51]
Features		[53]
Burials		[54]
Description of Artifacts		[55]
Flaked Tools		[55]
Scraper Planes		[56]
Scrapers		[56]
Choppers		[59]
Crescentic Stone or “Amulet”		[59]
Drill or Reamer		[59]
Hand Pick		[59]
Projectile Points		[59]
Small “Dart” Points		[61]
Large Blades and Large Points		[61]
Ground or Pecked Stone		[63]
Manos and Metates		[63]
Mortars		[65]
Pestles		[65]
Abrading Stones		[65]
Cog Stones		[65]
Stone Disks		[66]
Rubbing Stones		[67]
Core Hammerstones		[67]
Cobble Hammerstones		[67]
Slate Pendants		[67]
Miscellaneous Artifacts		[67]
Bone Implements		[68]
Other Remains		[68]
Unworked Bone and Shell		[68]
Fossil Remains		[68]
Pigments		[68]
Excavation of Site LAn-2		[69]
Disposal of the Dead		[70]
Description of Artifacts		[70]
Flaked Tools		[70]
Projectile Points		[70]
Ground or Pecked Stone		[71]
Metates		[71]
Manos		[71]
Mortars		[71]
Pestles		[71]
Rubbing Stones		[71]
Stone Disks		[71]
Pendants		[71]
Other Remains		[71]
Unworked Bone and Shell Remains		[71]
Summary and Conclusion		[72]
Bibliography		[76]
Plates		[79]

MAPS
1. Topanga Canyon		facing [49]
2. Tank Site LAn-1		facing [53]
3. Site LAn-2		[69]

FIGURES
1. Location of Features and Burials		[55]
2. Scraper Plane Types		[57]
3. Scraper Types		[58]
4. Projectile Points		[60]
5. Metate Types		[62]
6. Mano Types		[64]

TABLES
1. Burials LAn-1		[54]
2. Frequency of Scraper Planes by Depth		[56]
3. Frequency of Flaked Artifacts by Depth		[59]
4. Projectile Points		[61]
5. Mano Types		[63]
6. Burial Data on Site LAn-2		[70]
7. Flaked Tools and Materials from LAn-2		[70]
8. Suggested Chronology of Early Milling and Hunting Cultures of Southern California		[74]

THE TOPANGA CULTUREFINAL REPORT ON EXCAVATIONS, 1948

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THE TOPANGA CULTURE
FINAL REPORT ON EXCAVATIONS, 1948