Poblamiento temprano en Baja California. Variación craneofacial en restos humanos del sitio La Punta, Cañada del Águila, México

Abstract

In this work we explore the pattern of variation of the craniofacial morphology of five specimens recovered at the “La Punta” site, Baja California, dating back to just over 5000 years ago. This chronology makes this place one of the earliest occupations, with the presence of human bone remains, for this region of the country. The new information is compared with the data of some prehistoric specimens of central Mexico and the Yucatan Peninsula, correspon-ding to the late Pleistocene and the early Holocene, as well as with the Pericú group, which survived until the historical missionary period in the extreme south from the Baja California Peninsula, and from the hunter-gatherers of the Candelaria Cave, Coahuila, also from the late pre-Hispanic era.

The results obtained allow a more plausible understanding of the meaning of the remains studied, in the process of the ancient settlement of the Baja Cali-fornia Peninsula, Mexico.