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(flexed or extended? lying on the right side or the left?), the individual's sex and age at death, any indications of illness or injury, and the kinds and number of artifacts that had been placed in the grave as offerings. Then each burial was boxed and taken to the College laboratory for cleaning and cataloging. Eventually they were transferred to the University of California (U. C.) Berkeley for storage and further study.
Nearly 20 years later, while digging a trench for a water pipe, the Brazil family exposed another Native American burial. They notified the Lowie Museum of Anthropology (now the Phoebe Hearst Museum) at U. C. Berkeley, which sent out James Bennyhoff and Eugene Prince to expose and remove the skeleton. The archaeologists also produced a detailed description of the grave offerings buried with the person (an adult female) including remnants of a bead-studded cape in which she had been buried. The archaeologists noted another grave during this visit but left it in place.
The next archaeological work at the site came in 1968. By this time, the Brazil house had burned, and only the foundation, basement, and piers remained. The surrounding area was still mostly farm fields, but land values were rising as the suburbs spanned out from Sacramento. Inspired by the potential sale of
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