A Birdstone and Phallic Pestle Cache from CA-ORA-365

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" A Birdstone and Phallic Pestle Cache from CA-ORA-365 "
Desautels, Nancy A.; Koerper, Henry C.; Couch, Jeffrey S.

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	940754
Doc. No	:	LA9bp329fx
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Desautels, Nancy A.; Koerper, Henry C.; Couch, Jeffrey S.
Title & Author	:	A Birdstone and Phallic Pestle Cache from CA-ORA-365 [Article]\ Desautels, Nancy A.; Koerper, Henry C.; Couch, Jeffrey S.
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology
Volume/ Issue Number	:	25/1
Date	:	2005
Abstract	:	This study describes a ceremonial cache containing miniature pestle-like artifacts, a ''spike '' fragment, an obsidian biface, and a steatite birdstone recovered at Huntington Beach Mesa, Orange County. The phallic naturalism of one ''pestle'' suggests that more stylized specimens likewise denoted phallic symbols. The direct association of small ''pestles'' with birdstones, in this and other caches, supports the proposition that birdstones communicated fertility/fecundity symbolism.