The San Francisco SF-80 Bayshore project report (paid for by our friends at the California Dept of Transportation) is now available for your downloading pleasure at
http://www.sonoma.edu/asc/publications/sf80bayshore/index.htm
Several important collections from well-documented mid/late 19th century San Francisco households are presented in the same format as our Cypress / West Oakland data. Bruce Owen's statistical analyses reveal intriging differences between these remains and those from across the SF Bay in Oakland (so much for the "redundant data" critique). The nifty one-page summary snapshots are sitting at
http://www.sonoma.edu/asc/publications/sf80bayshore/Appendix_C.pdf
A concluding essay by yours truly at the end of
http://www.sonoma.edu/asc/publications/sf80bayshore/Chap11.pdf
reconsiders the concept of scale in urban archaeology and reflects on the potential of quantitative methods to reveal previously unrecognized emic patterns. (Ohmagawd, I'm starting to channel Stanley South.)
And there you have it.
Adrian Praetzellis
Sonoma State University
California, USA