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Father Miguel Venegas’ 1739 Obras californianas is the most extensive and detailed document covering the first forty years of the Jesuit period in Baja California. In addition to providing discussions of historical events, Venegas wrote... more

Father Miguel Venegas’ 1739 Obras californianas is the most extensive and detailed document covering the first forty years of the Jesuit period in Baja California. In addition to providing discussions of historical events, Venegas wrote extensively on the natural world and on indigenous cosmology, social networks, and lifeways. The section translated and annotated here includes the bulk of Venegas’ writing on Isla Cedros and its native people. The island, located on the Pacific Coast of central Baja California, was home to a large, maritime-adapted indigenous society. The period of time (1728-1732) covered in this section of the much larger Venegas manuscript details the tragic end of Cedros Island’s indigenous society, but preserves an account of their culture that is of inestimable value. The annotations included provide not only clarifications of meaning, but critical evaluations of the text and of the significance of particular passages within the larger context of Baja California indigenous and colonial history.

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  • Ethnohistory, Jesuit history, Mexico, Baja California (Archaeology)
• • by Raoul Zamponi
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  • North American Indigenous Languages, Native Peoples of Baja California, Amerindian languages, Language Isolates

Reseña del libro Cambios y continuidades de la vida ancestral Cucapá. Datos arqueológicos, arqueofaunísticos y etnográficos para su comprensión (2016), Mexico,Secretaría de Cultura/ INAH. Autores: Antonio Porcayo Michelini, Alejandra... more

Reseña del libro Cambios y continuidades de la vida ancestral Cucapá. Datos arqueológicos, arqueofaunísticos y etnográficos para su comprensión (2016), Mexico,Secretaría de Cultura/ INAH. Autores: Antonio Porcayo Michelini, Alejandra Navarro Smith, Andrea Guía Ramírez y Alberto Tapia Landeros.

• • by Claudia E . Delgado Ramírez
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  • Arqueología, Antropología cultural, Etnografía, Antropología Social
• • by Claudia Garcia-Des Lauriers
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  • Ethnohistory, Jesuit history, Mexico, Baja California (Archaeology)

Father Miguel Venegas’ 1739 Obras californianas is the most extensive and detailed document covering the first forty years of the Jesuit period in Baja California. In addition to providing discussions of historical events, Venegas wrote... more

Father Miguel Venegas’ 1739 Obras californianas is the most extensive and detailed document covering the first forty years of the Jesuit period in Baja California. In addition to providing discussions of historical events, Venegas wrote extensively on the natural world and on indigenous cosmology, social networks, and lifeways. The section translated and annotated here includes the bulk of Venegas’ writing on Isla Cedros and its native people. The island, located on the Pacific Coast of central Baja California, was home to a large, maritime-adapted indigenous society. The period of time (1728-1732) covered in this section of the much larger Venegas manuscript details the tragic end of Cedros Island’s indigenous society, but preserves an account of their culture that is of inestimable value. The annotations included provide not only clarifications of meaning, but critical evaluations of the text and of the significance of particular passages within the larger context of Baja Californ...

• • by Matthew Des Lauriers
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  • Ethnohistory, Jesuit history, Mexico, Baja California (Archaeology)

A multiple interment composed of three individuals was discovered in 1972 partially exposed on the surface of a shell midden on the Gulf of California side of the Cape Region in Baja California Mexico. There were no associated grave... more

A multiple interment composed of three individuals was discovered in 1972 partially exposed on the surface of a shell midden on the Gulf of California side of the Cape Region in Baja California Mexico. There were no associated grave goods, but a small collection of artifacts from the surface of the midden and the human remains were studied by Sheilagh and Richard Brooks of the University of Nevada Las Vegas. The multiple primary interment is not usual for a beach on the Southern Gulf coast, but is unusual because the pelvic girdle of one of the burials was placed higher in the grave pit than the others. This is the first time the latter trait was recorded for the Las Palmas culture.

• • by Stephen R . Van Wormer
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  • Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, California Indians, Death and Burial (Archaeology)