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Rock ArtSite Name: Wind Wolves Preserve Alternative Name: Pleito Cave, Peito Creek, Cache Cave, CA-KER-77Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 25.046 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: The West Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Bakersfield
Latitude: 34.994000N Longitude: 119.185W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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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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