This pictograph shelter forms part of a much larger habitation complex.
The pictographs themselves are not particularly special – in fact, some are fairly rudimentary – but the whole area is of archaeological interest because of midden fields and other evidence that this was an extensively used habitation site at one time. Across a small open space from this overhang there is another, much larger shelter, and while there are no pictographs in that second shelter the soot deposits on the ceiling shows that it was inhabited too.
The pottery sherds that archaeologists recovered at this site point to Serrano or Cahuilla occupation, dating from around a thousand or so years ago to historic times. The site also yielded lithic scatter and midden deposits, the later radiating away from the rock shelter.
