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Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Coyote Hills Shellmound ALA 329 Alternative Name: Ryan Mound
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 29.068 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: The West Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Newark Nearest Village: Fremont
Latitude: 37.558062N Longitude: 122.082116W
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2	Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1	Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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-1	Completely destroyed

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4	Short walk on a footpath
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1	In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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**Coyote Hills Shellmound ALA 329** submitted by symbionspacesuit : looking across the marsh at Shellmound ALA 329 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Shellmound ALA 329 in an artificial mound in Alameda County. Ryan Mound is a shell mound in what is now Coyote Hills Regional Park, a large park in the southeast bay on the alluvial plain south of Alameda Creek with the Coyote Hills along the western edge of the park bordering the waterfront, crisscrossed with hiking and biking trails all along the marshland and hills.

Ryan Mound was recorded as Mound ALA 329 by Nels C. Nelson in 1909. Shell Mound ALA 329 is approx. 400 by 298 feet at the base, a 200 by 101 feet diameter at the top of the mound, and it rises to an elevation of 10 feet above the alluvial plain along the Alameda Creek. The shell mound has a replication of an Tiburon Ohlone village built on top of it, including a pit house, tule house, and sweat lodge. Excavations on the shell mound from 1935 to 1972 uncovered approximately 500 human burials, a quantity of abalone "banjo" pendants, as well as fishing hooks, harpoons, obsidian spear & arrow heads, pestles and cobblestone. Ryan mound (ALA 329) and Patterson mound (ALA 328) along with shell mounds ALA 12 and ALA 13 lying within a mile away, form the Coyote Hills Mound Cluster.

Ryan Mound ALA 329 has a fence around it and is only open on shceduled public openings or by group reservation. The interpretive center has a little on the Tiburon Ohlone way of life, but there is no mention of shell mounds or Moundbuilder culture in the bay. The only reference to it being Ryan Mound is the site number(ALA 329) on the no trespassing sign or the small shellmound trail marker. There is no mention of the existence or location of Patterson mound(ALA 328) or either of the other mounds which make up the Coyote Hills Mound Cluster.

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