Five years ago, I inherited a major Environmental Impact Report and
archaeology report from a County staff archaeologist who resigned. She had
conducted partial reviews, but never accepted anything. A month after I got
the case, we received a rash of telephone calls from irate civilians
demanding we account for all the rock piles that were not addressed in the
archaeology report. I drove out there and found a stone wall, which we later
linked to a 1846 Mexican document. An acre of small rock piles no more than
18-inches high were found at one end of the wall. The consulting
archaeologist who missed the rock piles went berzerk and denied they were
"person-made," so I took geologists and biologists out to make their own
reviews. Everyone agreed these were stacked out there by people. This finding
caused a major public ruckus and led to a lawsuit by the civilians, which
they subsequently won. Later, some folks thought those piles were graves. I
thougth they were stock for continuing the wall. To this day, the rock piles
have not been opened. Has anyone out there seen anything like it?

Ron May