In the late summer of 1984, the author and a group of his archaeology students excavated fragments of Chinese porcelain at the site of a Pomo Indian village a hundred miles north of San Francisco. How
In a prior volume—The Voyage of the “Frolic”: New England Merchants and the Opium Trade (Stanford, 1997)—historical archaeologist Thomas N. Laytontold the story of his excavat
Layton (anthropology, San Jose State U., California) has written about the Frolic and its wrecking off the northern California coast in 1850. Here he focuses on the Chinese cargo bound for San Franc
