Human Settlement

Humans have settled the Bay Area in great numbers since the most recent Ice Age, about 11,000 years ago.

Europeans displaced the indigenous peoples beginning in the mid-eighteenth century. 

Today, the San Francisco Bay estuary is the center of a  metropolis, the home of seven million people. 

Indigenous Settlement

Two hundred fifty years ago, the estuary was the center of an almost unimaginably different landscape, the home of about...