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Camp Internet Dig Team: . . . . Sat, May 13, 9:49AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Welcome to Camp Internet's California Rock Art Dig ! .........We will be looking at Rock Art from several areas of California, asking you to discover answers to questions about the rock art, and we invite you to post your answers back here in the Dig Expedition Log........ Read each question, then click on the word BUTTON and you will be off on an exploration of web sites that hold the answers to some of California Rock Art’s secrets. As a Camp Explorer, it is up to you to read the text carefully everywhere you go, study the images closely, and come back and report your best answers ( try to include the Log Entry# at the beginning of your answer, and write complete sentences). Please start each answer with the Log number of the question. Example : Log#1 answer : the Chumash usually made ‘type-of’ rock art............. You will be seeing two basic rock art types : Pictographs – paintings on the rock, and Petroglyphs – images carved into the rock.

Camp Internet Dig Team: . . . . Sat, May 13, 9:51AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig Discovery #1 : The Chumash in the mountains behind Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura – and out on the Channel Islands – are world famous for their rock art. What kind did they usually do ? Petroglyph or pictograph ? This is a well known example called Painted Cave that is now a carefully protected State Monument.

Camp Internet Dig Team: . . . . Sat, May 13, 9:52AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig Discovery #2 : This next site to see is on a private ranch, and the Camp Directors visited it regularly a few years ago when their office was on the ranch. What do you think the images meant ?

Camp Internet Dig Team: . . . . Sat, May 13, 9:57AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig Discovery #3 : First stop on the Camp’s Rock Art Dig is the Coso Mountains in Eastern California, near Ridgecrest. Can you find that area on a map ? The rock art you will discover by clicking here is not painted on the rock. How was it made ? Click on these ... ... button .... to find the answer and come back and tell us what you have found.

Camp Internet Dig Team: . . . . Sat, May 13, 9:58AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig Discovery #4 : When the early Californians created the rock art in the Coso Mountains – what was the landscape like 10,000 years ago ? It is now a dry, rocky desert, but what was it like then ? Click here to find out button

Camp Internet Dig Team: . . . . Sat, May 13, 10:01AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig Discovery #5: Now we are going to explore rock art pictures taken by a different photographer in the same area. Our Rock Art Trail Guide, Mark Oliver, created an award for photographers that is given out by the American Rock Art Research Association. The photographer of these images won the award ! What is the name of this rock art site ? Who does the photographer who took these pictures think these human images were ? button

Camp Internet Dig Team: . . . . Sat, May 13, 10:04AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig Discovery #6 : This photographer has visited many rock art sites. Let’s look at his work, and his suggestions for what they might have meant. The comb shape shows up in many different rock art sites – it is thought to be a rain cloud. There are also pictures of humans and animals. But there is a type of rock art here we have not seen before. It is rectilinear lines in different box, grid and maze shapes. What does the photographer think these geometric images came from ? button

Camp Internet Dig Team: . . . . Sat, May 13, 10:06AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig Discovery #7: Now, let’s wrap up be visiting our own Camp web site Rock Art Gallery. These are Chumash rock art … what colors are they ? Are they pictogrpahs or are they petrogplyphs ? button

Ramon Estes: . . . . Sat, May 13, 10:08AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Discovery #1 - I think it is a pictograph because it looks painted on the rock.

Carla and Marie: . . . . Sat, May 13, 10:09AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Dig Discovery #2 - we think it looks like a sun, a star, a wiggly tadpole, and maybe a caterpillar ?

Ramon Estes: . . . . Sat, May 13, 10:10AM PST (-0800 GMT)
I think #2 looks like it is a millpeed with all those legs - a hungry one with its mouth open. And it is a tadpole above.

Camp Internet Dig Team: . . . . Sat, May 13, 10:12AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Ramon - you are right about it being a pictograph - where do you think their paints came from ?

Camp Internet Dig Team: . . . . Sat, May 13, 10:12AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Carla and Marie - you might be right about the tadpole .. this rock art is in a small rock cave next to a spring that has tadpoles even today .....

Camp Internet Dig Team: . . . . Sat, May 13, 10:22AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Good Morning CUE visitors ! ....... Above we have presented an example of how a Camp Internet Dig works - they are one of the most popular online activites we host...... The most important advantages of a Camp Dig is that the instructor controls what web sites are viewed by the students, guiding them to valuable content rather than random searching. Students can use resources all over the world - and every one will have been previed by the teacher or Camp Team....... After classrooms have used these in the fall, we train our teachers how to make their own in the Spring ! This training really empowers teachers and the results have been great - lots of creative storytelling and good links have been developed by our teachers. They are then archived and classes can use them any time to host their own Digs.

Camp Internet Dig Team: . . . . Sat, May 13, 11:26AM PST (-0800 GMT)
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Camp Internet Dig Team: . . . . Sat, May 13, 11:55AM PST (-0800 GMT)
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