For ten thousand years or more
the ancestors of the Muwekma Ohlone Indians lived, gave birth, hunted and fished. They harvested a great diversity of fruits and vegetables. They managed large tracts of land through selected burning. They married, grew old and died here by San Francisco Bay. |
The Muwekma Ohlone and other tribes developed religious institutions and a system of social ranking.
Many of their elite were buried with grave wealth, in cemeteries that developed into large earth mounds, commonly known as "shellmounds".
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