Here, we propose that lozenge-shaped stone artifacts further define these exchange contacts. 2005) regard-ing obsidian sourcing and the distribution of large bifaces and stone spheres, believed to be ritual items, helped to connect the two areas. Based on ethno-graphic linguistic distributions, they suggested that the two areas were occupied by Northern Uto-Aztecan groups during Middle Ho-locene times. 5,100 to 4,500 CYBP) of Olivella Grooved Rectangle (OGR) beads inspired Howard and Raab (1993) to propose the existence of a Middle Holocene interaction sphere connecting coastal southern California and the northwestern Great Basin, a distance of more than 1,200 kilometers. We agree with Howard and Raab (1993) that an interaction sphere, which we herein designate the Middle Holocene Western Nexus, connected coastal southern California and the north-western Great Basin during the Middle Holocene, Abstract The distribution and dating (ca. Additional lines of evidence supporting a southern California/northwestern Great Basin interaction sphere have recently been identified, including stone spheres found in both coastal southern California and Oregon and large bifacial blades of exotic materials, including one obsidian specimen from Orange County sourced to the northwestern Great Basin (Macko et al. 2007) proposed that the OGR type might reflect the move-ment of the Takic Gabrielino (Tongva) ca. It was also suggested (Howard and Raab 1993 Vellanoweth 1995, 2001 Raab and Howard 2002) that OGR beads are Uto-Aztecan marker artifacts in western North America, and Raab et al. See if there are body parts where they are more or less where they are supposed to be.Raab and Howard 2002) suggested the existence of a socioeconomic interaction sphere encompassing southern California (excluding the Chumash region) and the western and northern Great Basin (Figure 1). Study this specimen & see if you found a dinosaur mummy. Like, every time I go hiking or anyplace there are “rocks”. Sometimes you can see the edge of the mouth &/or teeth! I have been collecting these “things” for a long time. Look for skin patterns or scales or feathers, under magnification. Look for patterns where the eyes, eardrum mouth & spinal cord would be. My advice to you, would be to hold the fossil in your hand like you would when you hold your pet dog or cat under the chin. I Dissected cats, lab rats and things when I was a student in college, plus, I lived in the country & helped butcher turkeys, chickens and all the way up to a cow! So, I know where everything is supposed to be on an animal. I studied zoology & comparative vertebrate anatomy. The people who I gathered information about these “critters” were many times people from colleges & experts from all parts of the World, online. It was a head of a duckbilled dinosaur, about the size of a Turkey ! It’s head would be waist high of an average size person. The one I found was about the size of my fist. Where the neck on the back where it had separated from the body I found the impression of a cervical bone, with the hole for the spinal cord! I went online & found people who had found similar Cretaceous fossils or Dinosaur Mummies. Sure enough, I found the eyes, nostrils, mouth & ear drum. I found eyes & skin patterns like reptiles. I had started studying the odd looking specimens under a large magnifying glass or pocket microscope. When I started going on line to sites about fossils, I learned about “Dinosaur Mummies”! They are like Egyptian Mummies, except they are stone fossils of things like animals from the age of dinosaurs. I would always collect the odd looking specimens similar to that squash or duck headed one on the right side of your image. There were gravel pits, creeks, rivers, fields & flood plains with Chert (flint), & all kinds of fossils in the flood plains creek beds & the sides of the cliffs there & the walls of the gravel pits. I have been doing this for about 60 years.
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