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Raj Naidu accompanied me in the discovery of the Mammoth Rocks site on September 12, 2001. Brendan O’Neil, an Associate Resource Ecologist with California State Parks, led me to the Jasper Rock site several weeks later. 2. Although the alternative explanations offered to explain the polished rocks have been all but ruled out, my “rubbing rock” interpretation still remains a working hypothesis and should not be considered a proven fact. 3. It is possible albeit unlikely that some of these blocks were felled by natural processes such as seismic events. 4. During the 1989 excavation at the Duncans Landing Rockshelter, I saw what I believed to be scant evidence of a possible cultural component below Component 1. Unfortunately, recovery conditions were very difficult given the great depth and small size of the unit, and the fact that we encountered the suspect component at the close of the project. A small sample of soil was recovered from beneath Component 1, wet-washed using very fine mesh screen, and the screenings analyzed under a microscope by Rae Schwaderer, Thomas Wake, and me. No cultural evidence of any kind was recovered in this manner. However, in spite of this absence, I still believe that there is at least one unidentified cultural component lying below Component 1. The hypothetical component, if real, is almost certainly Paleoindian in origin. Actually, it would be surprising if the earliest inhabitants of the Sonoma Coast did not make use of this rockshelter, given its exceptional size and strategic location. 5 The deep excavation unit is sited immediately adjacent to the quarried boulder and in an area where large blocks of the outcrop were knocked or pried off (see Fig. 2). Most of the quarry debris found here is comprised of various-sized pieces of rough percussive shatter, rather than the debitage resulting from stone tool making activities. However, more flakes were recovered in the excavation units sited further away from this area. 6. At the time of the last glacial maximum (ca. 19,000-15,000 CALYRBP), sea level was about 120 m lower than today, thus the exposed coastal plain extended all the way to or near the edge of the continental shelf, and included the Farallon Islands. At that time, Lighthouse Peak on South Farallon Island stood 241 m above the coastal plain, and the Cordell Bank was itself a considerable 35 SCA Newsletter 38(4)
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