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Submitted by bat400 on Thursday, 05 December 2019  Page Views: 5362

Rock ArtSite Name: Wind Wolves Preserve Alternative Name: Pleito Cave, Peito Creek, Cache Cave, CA-KER-77
Country: United States Region: The West Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Bakersfield
Latitude: 34.994000N  Longitude: 119.185W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
1 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Wind Wolves Preserve
Wind Wolves Preserve submitted by bat400 : View of the mouth of the Main Cave, Pleito, California. Photo by David Robinson. The conjoined Panels A/G/H are contiguous; during documentation of the site in 2003, Dan Reeves called these panels the 'Gordian Knot‘ due to the sheer complexity of paintings located there. Appears as Figure 2 from "Methodological considerations of integrating portable digital technologies in the analysis... (Vote or comment on this photo)
A highly complex set of polychrome pictographs in the rock shelters and alcoves of Main Cave in Kern County, California.. Attributed to the Emigdiano Chumash people, Pleito has been called the "finest example of prehistoric rock art in the United States" and are known for many colour variants of red, black, white, cream, yellow, orange, green, and blue, with different images superimposed over each other.

Unfortunately, the rock art was made on fragile sandstone surfaces, and has been fading and detaching from rock for at least as long as the paintings have been known to modern Californians. It does not appear that regular visits to the rock art are still possible. However, a unique project involving the University of Central Lancashire, California State University - Channel Islands, University of Strathclyde, and the Rock Art Documentation Group has resulted in recording the art with portable instruments to capture the micro-topography enhanced and visible images, and Spectroscopy to document and study the Pleito images, including a virtual reality tour of the sites.

It appears that the virtual reality tour can be enjoyed at the Wind Wolves Preserve ranger station. The location provided in the header is for the ranger station, and does not reflect the actual location of the Pleito Cave site.
Additionally, many of the images can be seen in the web links at the bottom of this listing.

In addition to the Ranger Station, the Wind Wolves Preserve offers hiking and horse trails. From the Wind Wolves website: "The preserve is an ecologically unique region where the Transverse Ranges, Coast Ranges, Sierra Nevada, western Mojave Desert and San Joaquin Valley converge. Due to elevation ranging from 640 to 6,005 feet, the preserve has an impressive array of landforms and habitats" including "... a 30-square-mile veritable sea of grasslands ... home to the endangered San Joaquin kit fox and blunt-nosed leopard lizard, and one of the largest stands of the endangered Bakersfield cactus. ... grasslands rise from the valley floor and transition into classic California blue oak and valley oak savanna with extensive riparian wetlands. The oak savanna rises into juniper and pinyon forests that ascend into stands of ponderosa pine and big cone spruce." "At 93,000 acres, Wind Wolves is the west coast's largest non-profit preserve."

Other archaeological sites can be found within the preserve, including Cache Cave, a Chumash culture "cache" or "bundle" collection cave.

Web links:
Explore the Extraordinary Paintings of Pleito Cave. Background for the imaging project and many images and historical information. This website also includes a section for "virtual reality" that doesn't seem to hold any actual content.
Enculturating environments: the archaeology of interior South-Central California.
News and Events - Cache Cave California, USA, Date: Prehistoric.
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Archeological sites located at Wind Wolves Preserve by bat400 on Thursday, 05 December 2019
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Just about 30 minutes away from Bakersfield and about an hour away from Los Angeles is the Wind Wolves Preserve . It is almost 100,000 acres. The preserve endangered and threatened species in California. 23ABC's Adam Bowles takes us there.

For the news story and a brief video, see 23 ABC Bakersfield.
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