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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...gnarled oak had the image of a six-legged, lizard-like being meticulously scrawled into its trunk, the nearly three-foot-tall beast topped with a rectangular crown and two large spheres. "I was really the first one to come across it who understood that it was a Chumash motif," says Saint Onge, referring to the native people who painted similar designs on rock formations from San Luis Obispo south through Santa Barbara and into Malibu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tree Carving in California: Ancient Astronomers? | 2/9/2010 | See Source »

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