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The Peninsula of Baja California, a Terra Ignota Before and Now (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The colonization process in the Baja California Peninsula began with the arrival of Hernán Cortés in Bahía de la Santa Cruz in 1535. Then, the peninsula was called Terra Ignota, a Latin term used in cartography for regions that have not been mapped or documented. Its geographical isolation from the rest of New Spain made it a territory wrapped in fantasy...