I never encountered a cat burial, but on a trash pit outside the cemetery and
chapel at the Royal Presidio de San Diego, archaeology student Tim Gross
exposed a broken terra cotta bowl full of broken animal bones that I took to be a
chow bowl for a dog. About the same time, I supervised a crew excavating a
7,000 year old Archaic site and found a buried dog next to a pile of sea shells
(not sure if it was dumped or buried, but a paleontologist identified it as a
"Plains Indian dog"). And, one weekend, also in 1968, I dug into a circa 1930s
trash dump in Pottery Canyon in La Jolla, California and found a dug burial.
Only after cleaning the skeleton at home did I find the bullet hole in the
skull.

Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.