The Anacapa Island Archeological District, on

Anacapa Island Anacapa Island (Chumash: ''Anyapax'', meaning "mirage, illusion") is a small volcanic island located about off the coast of Port Hueneme, California, in Ventura County. The island is composed of a series of narrow islets long, oriented ...

near

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, is a historic district that was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...

(NRHP) in 1979. It included 26 separate

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, where there was a village site, an animal facility, a manufacturing facility, or other evidence having potential to yield information in the future. Anacapa Island has a history of human occupation by the

Chumash Chumash may refer to: *Chumash (Judaism), a Hebrew word for the Pentateuch, used in Judaism *Chumash people, a Native American people of southern California *Chumashan languages, indigenous languages of California See also *Chumash traditional n ...

people, who "camped on the islands thousands of years ago"; shell

middens A midden (also kitchen midden or shell heap) is an old dump for domestic waste which may consist of animal bone, human excrement, botanical material, mollusc shells, potsherds, lithics (especially debitage), and other artifacts and ecofac ...

make up part of the evidence of them.

References

Chumash Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in California National Register of Historic Places in Ventura County, California National Register of Historic Places in Channel Islands National Park Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in California 1979 establishments in California {{VenturaCountyCA-NRHP-stub