![]() ![]() ![]() Jim Cozens, who was San Ramon Valley High School principal from 1963-1975, brought two Indian artifacts to the museum several years ago. ![]() Examples of these items are currently on display at the Museum of the San Ramon Valley, donated to the museum by individuals over many years. Beads, abalone ornaments, charmstones, spear and arrow points, deer bone awls, pestles, mortars and bone whistles are shown. One page shows drawings of artifacts found in Danville during the 1950s at CCo-229 (the site-specific number). Heizer, The Handbook of North American Indians, California, provides excellent information about the Bay Area’s early settlers. Discoveries in Alamo when the I680 freeway was excavated, in Danville by the Old Oak, and in East County when the Contra Costa Water District expanded the Los Vaqueros reservoir have all yielded fascinating finds.Ī Smithsonian reference book edited by Robert F. What tribe did they belong to? How long ago did they live here?įrom archaeological digs and carbon dating, we know that people lived in the San Ramon Valley for at least 5000 years, possibly much longer. People are very interested in these finds and want to know more about these people. In past years, we have been reminded about the first people who lived in the San Ramon Valley as Indian burials has been unearthed in Alamo along the creek and Danville at San Ramon Valley High School. Ethnohistorians think the Bay Area has been populated for about 13,000 years. But of course people have lived here for thousands of years. When California local history is written, it is always a temptation to begin with the Gold Rush which brought thousands of migrants to the region and statehood in 1850. ![]()
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