Saturday, April 11, 2009

Oakbrook Park Chumash Interpretive Site, Thousand Oaks, CA


This is a trip I took to the Oakbrook Nature center in Thousand Oaks, CA. There is a Chumash Interpretive center that was very lovely. The curator Greywolf was really nice and informative about rock art sites. This trail showed how the natives lived 12,000 years ago. The site is located at 3290 Lang Ranch Pkwy, Thousand Oaks CA 91362

These are lights with native motifs. I though these were really cool.These are Chumash homes. This is a cave my friend Adam and I climbed up to. It's a steep hill but worth the cool formations inside. I used a light bouncer to shine light into the cave and using a tripod achieved this picture.
This is a cave we found on the trail. On the rock in front are mortars. I though this might have been rock out that has faded away. The close up shows similar symbols found at the Anzo Borrego girls site. They look like horizontal lines forming a circle.These photos below are from the museum. The Chumash used acorns to make a type of flour.

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