The San Andreas Valley area was once a rich and beautiful landscape of rolling hills and gentle valleys that supported a hugely diverse array of plant and animal species. Its waterways teemed with salmon, steelhead and trout. Before the Crystal Springs Reservoir was created, a creek flowed through the valley into a natural lake just northwest of the Pulgas Water Temple. Native peoples lived successfully and creatively upon this land for over 10,000 years before the San Francisco Bay Area became a bustling center of urban activity. Ohlone people typically built their community villages near a

The Ohlone and other native peoples have lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for at least 10,000 years. Although modern Indian people and scholars who interviewed their ancestors have left us with a lot of important information, the only direct evidence we have of these people and their world are the things they left behind. Archaeology is all about discovering and studying these artifacts and sites. Fragments of animal bone and pieces of shell are the remains of a meal. Flakes of stone are left over from making a spear point and beads are fallen from a broken necklace. Villages and temporary