Editing Monterey, California (section)

=== Ohlone period ===
[[File:Indio de Monterey.jpg|thumb|left|The [[Rumsen people|Rumsen tribe]] of [[Ohlone|Ohlone people]] have inhabited the area for centuries.]]
Long before the arrival of Spanish explorers, the [[Rumsen people|Rumsen]] [[Ohlone]] tribe, one of seven linguistically distinct Ohlone groups in California, inhabited the area now known as Monterey.<ref>{{cite book|last=Henson|first=Paul|title=The Natural History of Big Sur|year=1996|publisher=[[University of California Press]]|location=Berkeley|isbn=978-0-520-20510-9|author2=Donald J. Usner |edition= illus. by Valerie A. Kells|page=265}}</ref> [[List_of_Ohlone_villages#Monterey_Bay_area|Ohlone villages]] in the area included Ichxenta ([[Point Lobos State Reserve|Point Lobos]]), Calendaruc, Wacharon ([[Moss Landing, California|Moss Landing]]), and Rumsien ([[Carmel-by-the-Sea]]), among others. They subsisted by hunting, fishing and gathering food on and around the biologically rich [[Monterey Peninsula]]. 

Researchers have found a number of shell [[midden]]s in the area and, based on the archaeological evidence, concluded the Ohlone's primary marine food consisted of various types of [[mussel]]s and [[abalone]].<ref>{{cite web |first=Gary S. |last=Breschini |author2=Trudy Haversat |title=Archaeological Investigations at CA-MNT-149, In the Del Monte Forest, Monterey County, California |url=http://www.californiaprehistory.com/reports01/rep0023.html |access-date=June 22, 2012 |year=1986 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015180657/http://www.californiaprehistory.com/reports01/rep0023.html |archive-date=October 15, 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref> A number of midden sites have been located along about {{convert|12|mi}} of rocky coast on the Monterey Peninsula from the current site of Fishermans' Wharf in Monterey to Carmel.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Breschini|first=Gary S.|title=Radiocarbon Dating and Cultural Models on the Monterey Peninsula, California|url=http://www.pcas.org/assets/documents/V38N1a.pdf|author2=Trudy Haversat|journal=Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly|volume=38|number=1|date=Winter 2002|access-date=June 22, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140712020614/http://www.pcas.org/assets/documents/V38N1a.pdf|archive-date=July 12, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref>