CA-ALA-328, The Patterson Mound
LOCATION:
CA-ALA-328 is located approximately one mile to the east of Coyote Hills, near Fremont, California. The site is located within the boundaries of Coyote Hills Regional Park and is protected by the East Bay Regional Park District.
FIELDWORK:
The Patterson Mound has had a long history of excavation since its initial discovery and subsequent recordation by Nels Nelson in 1909. The University of California, Berkeley excavated the site first in 1935. The Berkeley excavation was then followed by students from San Francisco State University who excavated the site intermittently between the years of 1949 and 1968. Students from the California State University, East Bay, under the direction of Dr. C.E. Smith, excavated the site during the Summers of 1966, 1967,and 1968.
MATERIALS CURATED:
The CA-Ala-328 collection at CSU East Bay consists of 561 artifacts excavated during the Summers of 1966, 1967, and 1968. Click on the links to see a more detailed list
| Artifact Class | No. of Artifacts |
|---|---|
| Bone Tools | 175 |
| Hammerstone | 118 |
| Groundstone | 94 |
| Stone Tools | 79 |
| Antler Tools | 39 |
| Charmstones | 18 |
| Misc. Tools | 11 |
| Bone Whistles | 9 |
| Ecofacts | 4 |
| Stone Cores | 4 |
| Beads | 3 |
| Unknown | 3 |
| Pendants | 2 |
| Clay | 1 |
| Shell | 1 |
| Total | 561 |
| Artifact Class | No. of Artifacts |
|---|---|
| Awls | 64 |
| Worked | 40 |
| Flakers | 34 |
| Serrates | 22 |
| Needles | 4 |
| Scrapers | 3 |
| Unknown | 3 |
| Tubes | 2 |
| Gouge | 1 |
| Utilized | 1 |
| Wedge | 1 |
| Total | 175 |
| Artifact Class | No. of Artifacts |
|---|---|
| Pestles | 24 |
| Peckers | 32 |
| Mortars | 13 |
| Worked | 6 |
| Abraders | 3 |
| Unknown | 2 |
| Bowl | 1 |
| Hide Pounder | 1 |
| Milling Stone | 1 |
| Utilized | 1 |
| Total | 94 |
| Artifact Class | No. of Artifacts |
|---|---|
| Bifaces | 29 |
| Scrapers | 17 |
| Flakes | 10 |
| Worked | 10 |
| Burins | 5 |
| Utilized | 3 |
| Awl Sharpeners | 2 |
| Gravers | 2 |
| Chopper | 1 |
| Total | 79 |
| Artifact Class | No. of Artifacts |
|---|---|
| Flakers | 26 |
| Worked | 7 |
| Wedges | 6 |
| Total | 39 |
PUBLICATIONS:
Bickel, Polly McWhorter - 1976
Toward a Prehistory of the San Francisco Bay Area: The Archaeology of Sites ALA-328, ALA-329, and ALA-12. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Origer, T. - 1982
Hydration Analysis of Materials from CA-ALA-328 and CA-ALA-329, Alameda County, CA. On file at Cultural Resources Facility, Sonoma State University. Ringer, R.D. 1973 Environmental Exploitation at a Prehistoric Indian Site (ALA-328) in Alameda County, California. M.A. Thesis, Department of Anthropology, San Francisco State University.
Watts, Diane C. - 1984
Bones Along The Bayshore: A Study of Mammalian Exploitation and Cultural Taphonomy of Faunal Assemblages from Two Bayshore Shellmounds, CA-ALA-328 and CA-ALA-329. M.A. Thesis, Department of Anthropology, California State University, East Bay.
Wedel, W. - 1935
Notes Regarding Excavations at ALA-328. In Excavations at ALA-328 and ALA-329, by W. Wedel and C.E. Smith. Manuscript, 67. On file at the Archaeological Research Facility, University of California, Berkeley.