From K-QED.

I'm at the corner of Shell Mountain Street and a lonely way in Emryville, and looking at what you might think of as kind of suburban heaven.

There's a P.F. Chang's, an IKEA just a couple

blocks away. But right here at this intersection there's also something you might just

completely miss the first time you walk by.

There's a small mound.

It's like if you covered a Volkswagen bus with soil.

And a little bit away, there's this memorial that says, Bay Street Emryville was a shell mound site.

Now this street, shell mound street, and this mound caught the attention of our question

asker Paul Gilbert. He wanted to know,

what's the story behind Shell Mound Street in Emoryville and what happened to the

Native American Shell Mounds that I heard it was named after.

This is Bay Curious, the podcast that explores the Bay Area one question at a time. I'm Olivia

Alan Price. This week we're talking about Shell Mounds, the sacred sites

where Aloney would bury their ancestors. It's a complex story, thousands of years in the making, and today we'll touch on just

some of the history.

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To answer Paul's shell mound question, we brought in reporter Laura Clivens.

Yep, and for this story we'll actually start north of Amreville in Vallejo, California.

Hey I'm Laura.

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