Charcoal

Museum number:
1-127074a-f
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm2101127074a@2df
Accession number:
Acc.UCAS-84
Description:
Charcoal from screened digging. Six bags of charcoal; includes charred wood, charred bark. A) small flake of red jasper; struck from a pebble core; no further modification. B) two fragments of shell; probably attributable to Margaritifera margaritifera; one appears to have been burned. C) complete acorn seed (Quercus cf. wislezenii). D) fragment of pine cone (Pinus sabininia). E,F) charcoal. (Richard F. Ambro).
Donor:
University of California Archaeological Survey
Collection place:
CA-Ama-3 (Bamert Cave), Amador County, California
Collector:
Adán Eduardo Treganza and Robert Fleming Heizer
Collection date:
September 1950
Materials:
Jasper
Taxon:
Margaritifera margaritifera, Pinus sabiniana, and Quercus wislizeni
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Charred
Accession date:
September 5, 1950
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Charcoal, accession number 1-127074a-f, described as Charcoal from screened digging. Six bags of charcoal; includes charred wood, charred bark. A) small flake of red jasper; struck from a pebble core; no further modification. B) two fragments of shell; probably attributable to Margaritifera margaritifera; one appears to have been burned. C) complete acorn seed (Quercus cf. wislezenii). D) fragment of pine cone (Pinus sabininia). E,F) charcoal. (Richard F. Ambro).Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Charcoal, accession number 1-127074a-f, described as Charcoal from screened digging. Six bags of charcoal; includes charred wood, charred bark. A) small flake of red jasper; struck from a pebble core; no further modification. B) two fragments of shell; probably attributable to Margaritifera margaritifera; one appears to have been burned. C) complete acorn seed (Quercus cf. wislezenii). D) fragment of pine cone (Pinus sabininia). E,F) charcoal. (Richard F. Ambro).

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