Archaeological Investigations in the Sacramento River Canyon, Vol. I: Report of Testing at Seven Aboriginal Sites. C. M. Raven, S. K. Goldberg, M. J. Moratto, and K. M. Banks. Sacramento: California Department of Transportation, 1984, 650 pp., 94 figs., 7 attached maps, $15.00 (paper).

An Assessment of the Research Potential of 13 Ridgetop Archaeological Sites in Humboldt and Trinity Counties in Northwestern California. L. E. Weigel and D. A. Fredrickson. Sonoma State University Academic Foundation, 1982, 57 pp., 2 figs., available for reproduction costs from Six Rivers National Forest, Eureka, CA (paper). Archaeological Investigations on Pilot Ridge, Six. Rivers National Forest. William R. Hildebrandt and John F. Hayes. Sonoma State University Anthropological Studies Center, and San Jose State University Center for Anthropological Research, 1983, xii + 379 pp., 235 tables, 47 figs., 29 plates, available for reproduction costs from Sbc Rivers National Forest, Eureka, CA (paper). Archaeological Investigations on South Fork Mountain, Six Rivers and Shasta-Trinity National Forests. William R. Hildebrandt and John F. Hayes. Sonoma State University Anthropological Studies Center, and San Jose State University Center for Anthropological Research, 1984, 221 pp., 49 tables, 20 figs., 14 plates, available for reproduction costs from Six Rivers National Forest, Eureka, CA (paper). Archaeological Investigations on Pilot Ridge: Results of the 1984 Field Season. William R. Hildebrandt and John F. Hayes. Sonoma State University Anthropological Studies Center, and San Jose State University Center for Anthropological Research, 1985, iii + 151 pp., 22 figs., 22 plates, available for reproduction costs from Six Rivers National Forest, Eureka, CA (paper).

The Shasta-Trinity National Forests curve around the northern and northwestern edges of the Sacramento Valley in northern California, including within their boundaries the southern Medicine Lake Highlands, the slopes of Mount Shasta, much of the steep topography of the Klamath Mountains, and the headwaters of both the Sacramento and Trinity rivers. The approximately 1,800 recorded prehistoric archaeological sites on the Forests encompass some 8,000 years of prehistory. Cultural materials from these sites have been organized into three or four patterns with the Borax Lake Pattern being the oldest (e.g., Hildebrandt and Hayes 1984; Sundahl 1992b). Although constituting the smallest proportion of cultural remains on the Forests, materials of the Borax Lake Pattern are well represented in the Squaw Creek drainage in Shasta County and in South Fork Mountain and at the Cox Bar Site (CA-TRI-1008), both in Trinity County (Fig. 1). A considerable amount of research, primarily sponsored by the Shasta- Trinity National Forests, has been conducted in these areas. This article describes and compares the Borax Lake Pattern assemblages from these areas and proposes the recognition of two aspects within the pattern.