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Albert B. Elsasser
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Sylvia M. Broadbent
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California State Indian Museum
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Robert Fleming Heizer
79
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Ronald Leroy Olson
59
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Phoebe Apperson Hearst
55
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Olline Riddell
46
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Harold Heath
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S1964-1965 #74: State of California, Division of Beaches and Parks/Francis A. Riddell (March 19, 1965–September 2, 1981)
56
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S2004-2005 #8: Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Kent Lightfoot (May 17, 2005–June 20, 2025)
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S1964-1965 #70: Department of Anthropology (CSU Sacramento)/Sam Payen (March 12, 1965–May 1965)
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S1963-1964 #74: San Francisco State University (March 20, 1964–January 7, 1965)
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S1971-1972 #82: Zoology (UC Berkeley)/Robert Fleming Heizer (October 10, 1971–May 25, 1972)
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S1985-1986 #37: State Archaeology Lab/Peter Schultz (May 7, 1986–June 12, 1986)
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S1967-1968 #111: Department of Anthropology (UC Davis)/Jerald Jay Johnson (February 20, 1969–February 18, 1982)
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S1968-1969 #78: Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Alice Kalmer (February 4, 1969–June 16, 1969)
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S1968-1969 #82: University of California, Davis (February 20, 1969–unknown)
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S1969-1970 #98: California State University, Sacramento/Jerald Jay Johnson (March 19, 1970–November 8, 1971)
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