Case file · Sacred site
Coso rock art
Tens of thousands of petroglyphs of bighorn sheep, hunters and patterned figures in canyons of the Coso Range, now inside Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake. The year is a rough estimate; the images span thousands of years.
1,000 BCE · 35.98, -117.73 · status: official
The account
Researcher David Whitley argues many images record shamans' vision quests and rain-making by Numic-speaking peoples; others see hunting magic.