The Paleo-Peninsular Tradition of Baja California, México

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Early Human Dynamics in Arid and Mountain Environments of the Americas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

A territory surrounded by seas, with extensive coasts, mountain ranges, and deserts, hostile and extreme environments, remote and rugged, a true “dead-end” of about 1250 kilometers in length, in the past hosted a very unique and singular tradition that developed throughout this “inhospitable” landscape. Traditions from Southern California, such as the so-called San Dieguito culture, which was thought to be one of the oldest and had extended from there to the northern part of Baja California; recent archaeological research has shown that this culture is only the most marginal and northern part of another that originated within the Peninsula about thirteen thousand years ago and lasted until about eight thousand years ago. There are several elements that identify it, perhaps the most representative being the lithic artifacts with very sophisticated technology for their elaboration. However, the wide distribution throughout this landscape of all its material elements present on islands, coasts, valleys, mountain ranges, and deserts is what allows us to define it as a unique Paleo-Peninsular Tradition of the American Continent.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• Early Human Dynamics in Arid and Mountain Environments of the Americas

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Abstract Id(s): 53334