The jesuit sources of tje 18th century and its utility for the study of the mobility of the huntes – gatherers of the central desert of Baja California, México

Abstract

The first Jesuit missionaries who arrived to the central desert of the peninsula of Baja California, to the northeast of Mexico, in the eighteenth century, made descriptions and chronicles about the languages, customs, material culture and forms of organization of the human groups that lived there. The letters, diaries, chronicles and drawings made by the missionaries during their work of evangelization in the peninsula are very useful for historians, anthropologists and archaeologists, since they are sources of information that contribute substantially to knowledge about ancient ways of life, subsist-ence strategies and forms of mobility linked to obtaining certain resources throughout the year.