THE TOPANGA CULTURE FINAL REPORT ON EXCAVATIONS, 1948 BY A. E. TREGANZA AND A. BIERMAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL RECORDS Vol. 20, No. 2 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ANTHROPOLOGICAL RECORDS Editors (Los Angeles): C. W. Meighan, Harry Hoijer, Eshref Shevky Volume 20, No. 2, pp. 45-86, plates 17-24, 6 figs., 3 maps Submitted by editors July 15, 1957 Issued March 27, 1958 Price, $1.00 University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles California Cambridge University Press London, England Manufactured in the United States of America CONTENTS _Page_ Introduction 45 Review of Earlier Work at the Tank Site 47 Location and Description of Sites 47 Summary of Sites 51 Field Techniques 51 Features 53 Burials 54 Description of Artifacts 55 Flaked Tools 55 Scraper Planes 56 Scrapers 56 Choppers 59 Crescentic Stone or "Amulet" 59 Drill or Reamer 59 Hand Pick 59 Projectile Points 59 Small "Dart" Points 61 Large Blades and Large Points 61 Ground or Pecked Stone 63 Manos and Metates 63 Mortars 65 Pestles 65 Abrading Stones 65 Cog Stones 65 Stone Disks 66 Rubbing Stones 67 Core Hammerstones 67 Cobble Hammerstones 67 Slate Pendants 67 Miscellaneous Artifacts 67 Bone Implements 68 Other Remains 68 Unworked Bone and Shell 68 Fossil Remains 68 Pigments 68 Excavation of Site LAn-2 69 Disposal of the Dead 70 Description of Artifacts 70 Flaked Tools 70 Projectile Points 70