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- Title
A HYPOTHESIS REGARDING THE ARMY'S INCINERATOR AT FORT MCDOWELL, MARIN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA.
- Authors
PARKMAN, E. BRECK
- Abstract
Fort McDowell is a former military installation located on Angel Island in San Francisco Bay. The fort was utilized by the U.S. Army from 1899 to 1946. During that time, over 750,000 U.S. servicemen were processed through the installation, either on their way to war or upon their return. Untold numbers of soiled or otherwise unneeded uniforms were discarded on the island. Most were burned in a base incinerator, leaving nothing behind but the buttons, buckles, snap fasteners, insignia, and other metallic remnants. Field observations have led to a hypothesis regarding disposal of these remains and how their disposal enabled archaeological site formation.
- Subjects
MARIN County (Calif.); MILITARY bases; INCINERATORS
- Publication
Proceedings of the Society for California Archaeology, 2019, Issue 33, p82
- ISSN
0897-0947
- Publication type
Article