British ethnologist Robert Gordon Latham originally used the term "Costanoan" to refer to the linguistically similar … See more

The Ohlone inhabited fixed village locations, moving temporarily to gather seasonal foodstuffs like acorns and berries. The Ohlone people lived in Northern California from the northern tip of the San Francisco … See more

The predominant theory regarding the settlement of the Americas date the original migrations from Asia to around 20,000 years ago across the Bering Strait land bridge, but one anthropologist, Otto von Sadovszky, … See more

The arrival of the Spanish in the 1776 decelerated the culture, sovereignty, religion, and language of the Ohlone. Before the Spanish invasion, the Ohlone had an estimated 500 shellmounds lining the sea an… See more

Costanoan is an externally applied name (exonym). The Spanish explorers and settlers referred to the native groups of this region collectively as the Costeños (the "coastal people") circa 1769. Over time, the English-sp… See more

Linguists identified eight regional, linguistic divisions or subgroups of the Ohlone, listed below from north to south:
• Karkin (also called Carquin): The Karkin resided on the south side of the Carquinez Strait. … See more