Editing Parramatta (section)

===Aboriginal===
[[Radiocarbon dating]] suggests human activity occurred in Parramatta from around 30,000 years ago.<ref name="Settlers' history rewritten">{{cite news |last=Macey |first=Richard |date=2007 |url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/settlers-history-rewritten/2007/09/14/1189276983698.html |title=Settlers' history rewritten: go back 30,000 years |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=5 July 2014}}</ref> The [[Dharug|Darug people]] who lived in the area before European settlement regarded the area as rich in food from the river and forests. They named the area Baramada or Burramatta ('Parramatta') which means Eel ("Burra") Place ("matta"), with the resident Indigenous people being called the [[Burramattagal]]. Similar Darug words include Cabramatta (Grub place) and Wianamatta (Mother place).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.darug.org.au/DarugLanguage.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130502084020/http://www.darug.org.au/DarugLanguage.html|archivedate=2013-05-02|url-status=dead|title=Daraug Language|website=darug.org.au}}</ref> Other references{{which|date=April 2022}} are derived from the words of Captain [[Watkin Tench]], a white British man with a poor understanding of the Darug language, and are incorrect.{{citation needed|date=April 2022}} To this day many eels and other sea creatures are attracted to nutrients that are concentrated where the saltwater of [[Port Jackson]] meets the freshwater of the [[Parramatta River]]. The [[Parramatta Eels]] [[rugby league]] club chose their symbol as a result of this phenomenon.[[File:Parramatta 1812.jpg|thumb|left|View of Parramatta in 1812]]
[[File:Parramatta from May's Hill (c1824) - Joseph Lycett.jpg|left|thumb|''Parramatta from May's Hill'' by Joseph Lycett ({{c.|1824}})]]
[[File:"Parramatta" - A.H Fullwood (c1886).jpg|thumb|Parramatta in 1886|alt=]]