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, Hayward, under the direction
of Dr. C.E. Smith, excavated the site during the Summers of 1966, 1967,and
1968.
CHRONOLOGY:
MATERIALS
CURATED: The CA-Ala-328 collection at CSU Hayward 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 |
SIGNIFICANT
FINDS:
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, Hayward.
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.