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Natural PlacesSite Name: Duncans Landing Rockshelter Alternative Name: Duncans Point Cave, SON-348Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 19.263 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: The West Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Nearest Town: Bodega Bay Nearest Village: Carmet
Latitude: 38.394298N Longitude: 123.094632W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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Duncans Landing Rockshelter is the oldest recorded site of occupation on the North Coast of California (about 9,000 years B.P.). Duncans Landing (SON-348) is an ancient sea-arch cave formed around 500,000 years ago, which sits on the coastal bluff in Kashaya Pomo country.
There were a few shell mounds which once accompanied the rockshelter. The shell fragments and black mound earth is seen all around the perimeter of the rock, with concentrations in and around the openings of Duncans Landing Rockshelter. SON-348 was first recorded by Nels Nelson in 1909.
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