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Back when the Korean conflict or as they called it then, "police action" started, California's 40th Division of the National Guard was mobilized and went into training (I think) at Camp Cook. Training or not, they were at Camp Cook, which had been a US Army camp in WWII. At a later time Camp Cook was taken over by the Air Force, and it's now Vandenburg Air Force Base, and is loaded with missile silos, and as far as I know, they still launch satellites and test launch rockets there. The base is located on a point of land that juts out into the ocean, which is called Point Sal. My cousin was stationed at Camp Cook back in them days, before shipping out to Korea. We went down for a visit. Once on the base, I guess nobody cared where we went, because we ended up right out at the tip of Point Sal. Dad had been out there before WWII, and him and another fellow were getting abalones off the rocks, when they found a huge brass screw off of a ship that had run aground there, and Dad was off on the rocks trying to re-find that screw with salvage in mind. (He didn't find it.) The rest of the family was up on top, and the ground was littered with chips of flint, and all sorts of stuff that made me think that it had been occupied for a long period of time, including a shell midden. All of these points were found by me during that hour or two that we were out there on the point. I've often wondered if there is still stuff there, because nobody without proper authority is getting out to the point, past those rocket silos now days. When I found these points, I sure had the impression that up until then, not many people had paid any attention to what was there. Anyhow, this is what I found along with a bunch of broken stuff that is in a cigar box someplace.
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Below is a close up of this knife, or spear point, or bi-face, which is made from a brown flint type of rock, that was very common there. Most of the area was littered with this kind of rock.
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This has one end broken off, and in the photo it looks like obsidian, but it's not, it's the same flint as the point above. The last two are notched on one side, like they were hafted, and were perhaps knives, or do you suppose they might have been harpoons for catching seals or sea lions
The Chumash Indians made some rather nice sea going canoes, and were able to catch and kill whales. Anyhow, these are from a place where the public isn't going to be allowed for sometime to come.
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Below is a close up of this knife, or spear point, or bi-face, which is made from a brown flint type of rock, that was very common there. Most of the area was littered with this kind of rock.
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This has one end broken off, and in the photo it looks like obsidian, but it's not, it's the same flint as the point above. The last two are notched on one side, like they were hafted, and were perhaps knives, or do you suppose they might have been harpoons for catching seals or sea lions
The Chumash Indians made some rather nice sea going canoes, and were able to catch and kill whales. Anyhow, these are from a place where the public isn't going to be allowed for sometime to come.[attach 4]
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