Painted Rock (San Luis Obispo County, California)
Pictograph-covered sandstone alcove, Carrizo Plain, USA
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Painted Rock (San Luis Obispo County, California)
35.1461° N, -119.8617° E
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Painted Rock is a smooth horseshoe-shaped marine sandstone rock formation with pictograph rock art about 250 feet across and 45 feet tall near Soda Lake within the Carrizo Plain National Monument on the southwest side of the northern Carrizo Plain, west of Bakersfield and about 70 miles (110 km) east of San Luis Obispo and 45 miles (72 km) west of Taft, in California, United States.
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Chumash presence begins
c. 2000 BCE
Vaqueros Formation deposition
c. 22–16.5 million years ago
Chumash largely depart
c. 600 CE
George Lewis engraving
1908
Major shotgun damage
1920s
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