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Unpublished Paper
Final Report on the Burial and Archaeological Data Recovery Program Conducted on a Portion of Thámien Rúmmeytak [Guadalupe River Site], (CA-SCL-128/ Hyatt Place Hotel) Located in Downtown San Jose, Santa Clara County, California
Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area (2015)
  • Alan M. Leventhal
Abstract
This report presents the results of the burial and archaeological data recovery program conducted within a portion of site CA-SCL-128 [Thámien Rúmmeytak [Thámien (Guadalupe) River Site], a Late Middle Period-to-Late Period Ancestral Muwekma Ohlone Cemetery located at 282 Almaden Boulevard, City of San Jose, Santa Clara County, California. The recovered burial was inadvertently discovered on January 24, 2012 by a construction crew excavating a trench and footings for a concrete overhang canopy at the rear entrance to the newly renovated Hyatt Place Hotel. The Hyatt Place Hotel, previously known as the Holiday Inn, which was originally constructed in 1977 and was the location of a major prehistoric cemetery/residential village locality historically recorded as CA-SCL-128 (The Holiday Inn Site)
Keywords
  • Muwekma Ohlone,
  • California Indians,
  • California Prehistory,
  • California Archaeology,
  • San Francisco Bay Area
Publication Date
2015
Citation Information
Alan M. Leventhal. "Final Report on the Burial and Archaeological Data Recovery Program Conducted on a Portion of Thámien Rúmmeytak [Guadalupe River Site], (CA-SCL-128/ Hyatt Place Hotel) Located in Downtown San Jose, Santa Clara County, California" Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area (2015)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/alan_leventhal/104/