{"id":279052,"date":"2026-04-21T20:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/279052\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T20:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:23:09","slug":"native-american-remains-found-at-uc-berkeley-construction-site-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/279052\/","title":{"rendered":"Native American Remains Found At UC Berkeley Construction Site: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERKELEY, CA \u2014 Construction on a new volleyball complex at UC Berkeley has been paused after crews unearthed Native American skeletal remains, according to a report from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/eastbay\/article\/native-american-skeletal-remains-uc-berkeley-22216060.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">San Francisco Chronicle<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The remains were found underneath a layer of concrete two feet underground, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berkeleyscanner.com\/2026\/04\/16\/uc-berkeley-crime\/uc-berkeley-construction-site-native-american-remains-found\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Berkeley Scanner<\/a>, which first reported the findings. <\/p>\n<p>Construction was paused at the site following the discovery, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Per <a href=\"https:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=HSC&amp;sectionNum=7050.5.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">California law<\/a>, all work must be stopped when remains are found at any location other than a cemetery. <\/p>\n<p>The courts are being built in the southwest part of the campus. They&#8217;re expected to be done by Summer 2026, although it&#8217;s unclear if the discovery of the remains will delay that. <\/p>\n<p>UC Berkeley officials said they are coordinating with the California Native American Heritage Commission, which is tasked with ensuring the remains are handled properly, according to the reports. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERKELEY, CA \u2014 Construction on a new volleyball complex at UC Berkeley has been paused after crews unearthed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-279052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}