University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, 1907-1910, Vol. 7: With 50 Plates, 231 Text Figures (Classic Reprint)

Another, lower mound, containing graves, lay on the site of the Emeryville raoe-track near by, but it has been leveled down during the construction of the track. The beach is then only one foot above the water level, while the ground in the immediate Vicinity of the mound is from two to three feet higher. Excerpt from University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, 1907-1910, Vol. 3) during high tide. Find more at forgottenbooksThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. This ground is quite level and forms a part of an extensive alluvial at. The shellmound which was the object of the excavation has the form of a truncated cone, with a diameter of 270 feet at its base and 145 feet at the top, and rising 27 feet above the plain. A small creek, having its source about three miles away, in the hills back of Berkeley, passes the mound on its south side, at a distance of two hundred feet, and empties into the bay. 7: With 50 Plates, 231 Text FiguresThe water of the bay rises to within 130 feet of the base of the mound (pl. On the north side its foot extends 100 feet farther over the at,