The hunter-gatherers of the long peninsula — Cochimí through the central deserts, Guaycura in the Magdalena country, Pericú at the Cape — heirs to the Great Mural rock-art sierras, and unreached by Spain until the Jesuits landed at Loreto in 1697.
Not an ending: the mission century hollowed out the centre and south, but Yuman-speaking descendants still hold communities in northern Baja California, and in the 1990s people of the old Santa Gertrudis mission district petitioned to be recognised as Cochimí.
The standard synthesis of peninsular prehistory, including the Comondú complex behind these peoples.
The definitive account of the Jesuit peninsula and what the mission century did to Cochimí, Guaycura and Pericú.