A CALIFORNIA COLLECTION
WITH
COGGED STONES
7,500 TO 5,000 YEARS AGO

LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
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COPYRIGHT DECEMBER 31, 2011 PETER A. BOSTROM

      This picture shows a portion of a collection of artifacts that were collected on a site in Pasadena, California in the late 1800's. The following description is from the 1900 issue of the "Report Of The U.S. National Museum From The Director Of The Smithsonian Institution."
    "Mr. Rust's collection also contains an interesting series of objects from an ancient village site in the suburbs of Pasadena. In this collection there are no globular mortars or cylindrical pestles, but numerous mealing plates showing extensive use, and many oblong and discoid mullers. Several annular and stellar shaped stones (
cogged stones) are unique. The whole group seems to indicate a people related in many ways with the tribes of the Sierra. The village site from which the specimens illustrated were collected is situated on the bluff overlooking South Pasadena and on the line of Buena Vista street. When the grading of the street was underway Mr. Rust watched the work daily, saving more than a hundred implements and utensils. He was able to even locate some of the lodge sites by the larger number and greater variety of specimens found within limited areas."

Large Southern California collection including cogged stones.

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