Gutierrez-Martínez, M.d.l.L., G., Aceves-Medina & I.M., Álvarez-Ramírez (2020). Ichthyofauna of the Baja California Peninsula in the rock paintings of Sierra de San Francisco and Sierra de Guadalupe, Mexico. VII International Symposium on Marine Sciences ISMS 2020, Barcelona. Barcelona, España, julio 1 - 3, 2020, 1.
María de la Luz Gutierrez-Martínez 1, Gerardo Aceves-Medina 2 y Indra María Álvarez-Ramírez 2
The Sierras de San Francisco and Guadalupe (Central Baja California, México), concentrate a huge number of sites of the Gran Mural pictorial tradition. Painted panels done approximately between 3,500 and 5,500 years ago, exhibit an interesting diversity of terrestrial and marine fauna (Gutiérrez-Martínez 2013; Rector, 1981). A large part of these sites consist of fish depictions, some grossly designed, but with morphological characteristics that in many cases, allow their identification at least at taxonomic levels of family or genus. Exceptionally we can find few paintings so well delineated so researcher can be able to determine it to species level. In this research, we present the identification results of the marine fish representations done in 14 painting rock sites of these mountains. Fish depictions correspond at least to 37 morpho-types, from which 17 seem to belong to 11 orders and 15 families. Only 10 fish depictions were assigned to a possible genus and five to a possible species. Among the figures, sharks, rays, morays, groupers, jack mackerels, pompano, tunas and flounder are between the most conspicuous fish depictions. Identification of these species will allow obtaining gradually a catalog, which among other things will help us to infer the extraction sites of these fish (Gulf of California or the West Coast of the Peninsula of Baja California) and will be useful to understand mobility patterns and subsistence of hunter-gatherer-fishermen groups that lived in these mountains.
Palabras clave: rock paintings; Fish fauna; Baja California; archaeological fish records
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