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Prehistoric Rock Paintings in Baja California

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Clement W. Meighan
Clement W. Meighan*
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University of California, Los Angeles, California
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Abstract

Elaborate rock paintings from several rock shelters in the central part of Baja California are reported and described. The paintings are assigned to the Comondú culture on the basis of artifacts found in the shelters, one of which yielded a radiocarbon date of A.D. 1435 ± 80. The paintings apparently served as hunting magic. The complexity of the rock art and the wealth of sites and paintings suggest a somewhat more advanced culture than reported by the Spanish.

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Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 31 , Issue 3Part1 , January 1966 , pp. 372 - 392
Copyright
Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1966

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