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This article focuses on the importance of art and living in a community. Anthropologists tells that making art and living in community are two key factors that define civilization. Making art and living together are among the most recent steps in human evolution and are what makes people human. A short walk from the author's house are some rock paintings made by the Cahuilla People, who have lived in and around the San Jacinto and Santa Rosa Mountains of Southern California for about 3,500 years. The paintings are a long, horizontal line of simple diamond patterns in red paint on the face of a massive granite boulder that faces across the valley to Tahquitz Rock, the most prominent geological feature in the area. Members of the Cahuilla tribes say that the artwork was a traditional part of coming-of-age ceremonies for girls.