Case file · Sacred site
Burro Flats Painted Cave
A Chumash/Tongva pictograph site in the Simi Hills, among the best preserved in Southern California, where sunlight at the winter solstice falls across a group of painted figures. The year is approximate.
1000 CE · 34.23, -118.70 · status: official
The account
It sits on the former Santa Susana Field Laboratory rocket-test site, which helped protect it from vandalism.