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Acorns fed Native Americans... @diane
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From the Kumeyaay in San Diego County to the Yurok and Hoopa (or Hupa) on the North Coast, 75 percent of California’s Indigenous people relied on acorns as one of their primary foods. There’s evidence that Native Americans in the state used acorns for at least 9,000 years. In fact, acorns are found in greater quantities than any other food at California archaeological sites.
Twenty different oak tree species grow in California, with stands of coast live oak stretching from Northern California’s Mendocino County south into Mexico, huge valley oaks ranging from Shasta County out to the Channel Islands, and California black oaks growing along a nearly 800-mile band extending from the Cascade Range into the Sierra Nevada and south to San Diego County.
Acorns and Native American Culture
Take a hike through a California oak forest and you might come upon rocky outcroppings incised with one or more shallow, circular holes. These depressions, known as bedrock mortars, are not natural geological features. Instead, they were created hundreds of years ago as Native Americans used...
www.visitcalifornia.com
From the Kumeyaay in San Diego County to the Yurok and Hoopa (or Hupa) on the North Coast, 75 percent of California’s Indigenous people relied on acorns as one of their primary foods. There’s evidence that Native Americans in the state used acorns for at least 9,000 years. In fact, acorns are found in greater quantities than any other food at California archaeological sites.
Twenty different oak tree species grow in California, with stands of coast live oak stretching from Northern California’s Mendocino County south into Mexico, huge valley oaks ranging from Shasta County out to the Channel Islands, and California black oaks growing along a nearly 800-mile band extending from the Cascade Range into the Sierra Nevada and south to San Diego County.
Tell that guy to come over to the coast and we'll show him how it's done!