Santa Rosa Island

Santa Rosa Island is located in Santa Barbara County. This island is currently part of the National Parks system and can be visited via public chartered boats from Ventura and Channel Islands Harbors from April through October.

"Using a small fragment of a human femur discovered by Phil Orr in 1959 on Santa Rosa Island, modern techniques of bone protein analysis and radiocarbon dating indicate that Arlington Springs Woman lived some 13,000 (calendar) years ago. Only one other find in North America, a child burial from the now-destroyed Anzick Site in Montana has ever been dated to this early age." - Dr. John R. Johnson, Curator of Anthropology at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History (read more at http://www.ohranger.com/channel-islands/history-channel-islands).