Read more about the #historic #shellmounds of the #sfbayarea

https://fastestslowguy.blogspot.com/search/label/shellmound

https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/anthpubs/ucb/text/ucp007-006-007.pdf

#miwok #NativeAmerican #archeology #history #ohlone #huichin

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#MoundMonday, let's make it trend #archaeologists.
Built over about seven millennia, #Sambaqui #ShellMounds found on the Brazilian coast range up to 70m high and 500m wide.
Photo is Garopaba Sambaqui -28.62547 -48.8929, largest shell mound in Santa Catarina area, about 700,00 cubic meters - nearly equal to Monks Mound.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sambaqui_Garopaba_do_Sul.jpg
See bibliography here: Sambaquis from the Southern Brazilian Coast ...
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353362658_Sambaquis_from_the_Southern_Brazilian_Coast_Landscape_Building_and_Enduring_Heterarchical_Societies_throughout_the_Holocene
#Archaeology #Brazil #Mounds #MoundBuilding

"Native people began to disappear from their traditional land."
How mushy centrists talk. "DISAPPEAR"?! My 3 year old thought things just disappeared but grown writers?
There were once more than 425 #Shellmounds in the #SF#bayarea One was three stories high 350 feet in diameter. Massive. Thousands and thousands of years of living around in the largest Oak forest in the world. Prime real estate stolen. They were killed and runoff. #Christian
#history #genocide #justice #colonialism #culture