The Omiomi were a Coast Miwok tribelet that inhabited the valley of Novato Creek and its surrounding hills.
Deer IslandTwo bedrock mortars and two anvilsElevation 155 ft.This is another one of Joel’s North Bay discoveries. The mortars are on the other side of this somewhat unpromising-looking rock.Why are mortars conjoined like this? The difference in depth suggests that the shallower one is a “starter” mortar where nuts like acorns are broken up into […]
San MarinMultiple PCNsElevation 174 ft.A form of rock art known as the pecked curvilinear mucleated (PCN) petroglyph survives in a number of North Bay locations and can be found throughout the Coast Range mountains from the Oregon border to Santa Barbara.For an in-depth study of PCNs see Donna Gillette’s 2011 dissertation Cultural Markers on the […]