Editing Berkeley, California (section)

===Indigenous history===
[[File:Acorn pit at Indian Rock.jpg|thumb|left|upright|This pit in the surface of a rock at [[Indian Rock Park]] is typical of those used by the [[Ohlone]] people to grind [[acorn]]s.]]

The site of today's City of Berkeley was the territory of the Chochenyo/Huchiun [[Ohlone]] people when the first Europeans arrived.<ref>{{cite book|last=Golla|first=Victor|title=California Indian Languages|year=2011|publisher=University of California Press|location=Berkeley, California|isbn=978-0-520-26667-4|page=380|url=http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520266674|access-date=March 23, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120321160100/http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520266674|archive-date=March 21, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> Evidence of their existence in the area include pits in rock formations, which they used to grind acorns. wildflower seeds, grass seeds, and many different foods, including squirrel fat, and a [[shellmound]], now mostly leveled and covered up, along the shoreline of [[San Francisco Bay]] at the mouth of [[Strawberry Creek]].  Human remains and skeletons from Native American burials have been unearthed in West Berkeley and on campus alongside [[Strawberry Creek]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Mongoloid Type Skeleton is Dug Up at Berkeley |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=OT19250620.1.15&srpos=57&e=-------en--20-OT-41--txt-txIN-%22strawberry+creek%22-------1 |access-date=December 4, 2022 |work=Oakland Tribune |date=June 20, 1925}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Dinkelspiel |first1=Frances |author-link=Frances Dinkelspiel |title=Ohlone human remains found in trench in West Berkeley |url=https://www.berkeleyside.org/2016/04/08/ohlone-remains-found-in-new-trench-on-berkeleys-fourth-st |access-date=December 12, 2022 |work=Bekeleyside |date=April 8, 2016}}</ref> Other artifacts were discovered in the 1950s in the [[Downtown Berkeley|downtown area]] during remodeling of a commercial building, near the upper course of the creek.