The Tubatulabal live in the Kern River/Lake Isabella area. They followed a life-way similar to their neighbors, the Kawaiisu and the Yokuts. Their main staple was acorns, and they hunted deer and antelope, and caught fish in the rivers. In fieldwork done in 1948 and 1949 archaeologists found Long Canyon Village, a permanent winter village on the south fork of the Kern River, at an elevation of 3000 feet. It was thought to have been last occupied sometime between 1780 and 1820. Rock rings which were the remains of houses and granaries were found.

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