Everything from bears, snakes and dolphins to California condors and ticks can be found in Chumash rock art. “The condor is the cleaner of the wilderness,” said Adelina Alva Padilla ...

Ancient rock art has fascinated observers, an interest that reaches from Herodotus describing the awesome pyramids (ginormous petroglyphs) in 450 BCE to guys like me who search our San Rafael ...

Ancient rock art--which includes depictions of day-to-day life among the Chumash--sustained soot and smoke damage, said Joan Brandoff-Kerr, chief archeologist for Los Padres National Forest.

a co-author of the study who received a National Geographic Young Explorers Grant in 2014 to study Chumash rock art. “It is a sacred being which is part of prayers, utilized for cleansing ...

The study concluded that Native Americans, likely of the Chumash tribe, consumed the hallucinogenic plant Datura wrightii hundreds of years ago at a rock art site in Pinwheel Cave in California ...

“I’m exceedingly allergic,’’ he says. One of the most interesting finds? A Chumash rock art site in Malibu suggests that tule elk—a species indigenous to California that's come back from ...

The Chumash people of California call the plant ... the sites where that artwork was preserved on cave walls or beneath rock shelters. That’s part of what makes the Pinwheel find so interesting.

Like creatures of the ark, Saddlerock Ranch’s animals are here in pairs: llamas, emus, macaws, peacocks, camels and zebras. But these California immigrants are commonplace compared to the ...

The Chumash people have frequented the cave as ... first clear evidence for the ingestions of hallucinogens at a rock art site, in this case, from Pinwheel Cave, California.” ...

The local landmark is commonly known as Morro Rock, a Spanish word with several meanings including “snout” or “round hill.” But Indigenous people of the area call it by other names: Lisamu’ by the ...

is coming to rock the house at the Chumash Casino Resort’s Samala Showroom at 8 p.m. Friday, June 30. Tickets for the show are $45, $55 and $65. Michaels began playing guitar as a teenager.