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The middens on the islands found a variety of tools made from chipped stone, bone tools, and beads.

The Chumash people lived in large villages or towns with up to 1,000 residents. Chumash villages typically contained houses, a sweat lodge, and occasionally had menstrual houses, cemeteries, sacred spaces as well as structures that were for food storage and preparation. Addition to Chumash village info: The Chumash people were leaders in the creation of their villages, they had a sociopolitical organization that allowed their villages to be so well preserved and created great social space and village community that lasted even into an excavation of their villages.

The Tongva people did use many marine artifacts in their daily lives such as shells. They used shells to create beads and while this was not part of their dietary practices it was a very important part of their economy. They used these shell beads as a form of trade to obtain more food from the mainland that they could not cultivate on the island.

The middens in San Miguel Island showed some of the earliest known fishing hooks and specialized tools for processing seafood.[54]

The tomol boats were highly sophisticated boats that were able to transport multiple families across the islands which were valuable to the culture of the Chumash people. The ships were made from tule which made the ships very buoyant and unsinkable.

During the Late Pleistocene, the flora on Santa Rosa island very closely resembled the foliage that makes up some forests in Northern California today. Now, the flora on Santa Rosa Island has a lot of grasslands, scrublands, and woodlands.

The Chumash practiced controlled fires to promote yield on the resources of the land due the remaining charcoal in the sediments each year

The sheep were brought to the islands, specifically Santa Rosa island by the Mexican government in AD 1844. They were the dominant herbivore on the island until the end of the 19th century .Later the sheep were replaced by cattle that were brought by the Vail and Vickers families who bought the ranch. Throughout the 20th century, the Vail and Vickers family imported Roosevelt elk and Kalibab mules that they used for hunting.

The Channel Islands also had a huge population of shellfish during this time that every part of utilized .The abalone was so important the native peoples started to farm abalone based to get a higher yield.