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Chumash Painted Cave State Historic Park, California
Near a summit in the heart of California’s Santa Ynez Mountains, Chumash Painted Cave, or ’alaxulux’en, features rock art created over centuries by the Chumash. The cave now lies within Chumash Painted Cave State Historic Park, which was established

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