- Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico
Emiliano Gallaga
Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas, Posgrados, Faculty Member
- I am a mexican archaeologist from the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH); I earned my master's and do... moreI am a mexican archaeologist from the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH); I earned my master's and doctorate degrees in Anthropology from The University of Arizona and worked in different archaeological sites, both national and international, in the states of Sonora, Chihuahua, the State of Mexico, D.F., Yucatán, Chiapas, Arizona, New Mexico and Brazil. My research interests are Mesoamerica, North of México, experimental archaeology, historical archaeology, afromexicans, and mirrors.edit
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The oldest macaw specimen in Pre-Hispanic Mexico and the southwestern United States was recovered in Cueva de Avendaños, Chihuahua, Mexico, at the base of the Sierra Madre Occidental. It dates to the Late Archaic/Early Agricultural period... more
The oldest macaw specimen in Pre-Hispanic Mexico and the southwestern United States was recovered in Cueva de Avendaños, Chihuahua, Mexico, at the base of the Sierra Madre Occidental. It dates to the Late Archaic/Early Agricultural period (1929-2057 cal BP). The head is the only preserved element of the macaw and it was mummified through natural causes. Research on this specimen examines its sex identification and its geographical range, questioning whether this specimen belongs to a local population living in the vicinity of the cave. A species distribution model over the last 2000 years was elaborated to ascertain the presence of military macaw in the study area. Our results show that the macaw was non-local, sustaining the idea that the practice of early animal husbandry existed in the early stages of the Pre-Hispanic world, and also suggest that a significant and rapid climate changes characterized the Holocene, affecting the military macaw's distributional range.
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Resumen es: En muchos sitios de Mesoamerica han sido recuperadas incrustaciones de pirita que dan forma a los espejos prehispanicos de mosaico. La mayoria de los est...
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En este numero se presentan las mas recientes investigaciones sobre los origenes y la llegada a Mexico de las poblaciones de origen africano, asi como las circunstancias historicas de su integracion a nuestro territorio durante el periodo... more
En este numero se presentan las mas recientes investigaciones sobre los origenes y la llegada a Mexico de las poblaciones de origen africano, asi como las circunstancias historicas de su integracion a nuestro territorio durante el periodo colonial hasta el dia de hoy, a partir del estudio de los contextos arqueologicos. En la historica fecha del 8 de noviembre de 1519 no solamente entraron a la ciudad de Mexico-Tenochtitlan los contingentes europeos de Hernan Cortes, sino tambien un grupo de africanos que los acompanaban. Las fuentes coloniales documentan al esclavo de nombre Juan Cortes, perteneciente al soldado Juan Sedeno, como el primer africano registrado en la Nueva Espana el cual llego con los ejercitos de Cortes en este 1519, el primero de mas de 500 000 africanos que entrarian de manera legal a la Nueva Espana. La cifra se eleva si tomamos en cuenta el contrabando que existio de esta “mercancia” en distintos puertos del recien “descubierto” continente a lo largo de la Colonia
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Presentation of the chimichal results on early presence of Chile (capsicum) on preclassic pots from the site of Chiapa de Corzo, Chiapas.
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La antiguedad y el hallazgo de la cabeza de guacamaya momificada no solo arrojaran luz sobre su temprana presencia en la region, sino tambien sobre el proceso de adaptacion de la agricultura y lo que podria significar para estas... more
La antiguedad y el hallazgo de la cabeza de guacamaya momificada no solo arrojaran luz sobre su temprana presencia en la region, sino tambien sobre el proceso de adaptacion de la agricultura y lo que podria significar para estas comunidades tempranas
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Research Interests: Geography, Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Provenance, Obsidian, and 10 moreLithic Technology, X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) Spectroscopy, Southwestern Archaeology, Archaic Period, Projectile Points, Casas Grandes archaeology, Obsidian Sourcing, Chihuahua Archaeology, West and Northwest Mexican Archaeology, and Hunter Gatherer Archaeology
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Despite the impressive amount of archaeological research conducted in Sonora in the last few decades, some areas remain little researched. The Middle Rio Yaqui region is one such area. Traditionally, this region has been identified as... more
Despite the impressive amount of archaeological research conducted in Sonora in the last few decades, some areas remain little researched. The Middle Rio Yaqui region is one such area. Traditionally, this region has been identified as part of the Río Sonora archaeological tradition that embraces the sierra region from near the international border south to northern Sinaloa. No archaeological research has been conducted in the middle of this region to verify this interpretative assumption, however. This essay presents basic data from the Onavas Valley Archaeological Project (OVAP), which was conducted in the Middle Río Yaqui Valley in the summer of 2004 to obtain an initial understanding of an archaeologically poorly researched area and to examine the area's possible role in interactions with neighboring archaeological areas. The data illustrate that the Onavas Valley population appears to have been more related to the Huatabampo archaeological tradition than to the Río Sonora ar...
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Research Interests: Archaeology, Experimental Archaeology, Geology, Mineralogy, Art, and 15 moreMesoamerican Archaeology, Aztecs, Maya Archaeology, Mesoamerica, Arqueología, Ancient jewellery, Manufacture, Experimental archeology, Mesoamérica, Herramientas, Gemology and the lapidary proces now and of antiquity, Arqueología experimental, Lapidaries and Precious Stones, Adornment, and MANUFACTURING TRACES
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Prehistoric rock art is often analyzed predominantly as the product of artists intentions to create public representations of their perceptual experiences and mental imagery. However, this representation-centered approach tends to... more
Prehistoric rock art is often analyzed predominantly as the product of artists intentions to create public representations of their perceptual experiences and mental imagery. However, this representation-centered approach tends to overlook the performative role of much material engagement. Many forms of rock art are better conceived of as traces from artists repeated engagement with a surface, including with previous traces. For these artists, a potentially more relevant intention was ritualized interaction, such as communion and petition, which were realized as materially mediated transactions with the agencies that were believed to animate specific areas of the environment. If so, we can expect the motifs to be strongly clustered on ritually attractive areas, rather than to be evenly distributed on canvas-like surfaces that would maximize their visibility as public representations. Here we propose a novel way of testing the interaction-centered approach in terms of preferential at...
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Tourism activity in general, with the heritage tourism sector in particular, represented the second inflow of foreign currency to Mexico in 2019 (pre-pandemic), with more than USD 24 million. According to local polls, the main purpose of... more
Tourism activity in general, with the heritage tourism sector in particular, represented the second inflow of foreign currency to Mexico in 2019 (pre-pandemic), with more than USD 24 million. According to local polls, the main purpose of travel is leisure. However, more than half of tourists (local and foreigner) who visit Mexico enjoy/visit an archaeological site, a museum, and/or a local community. The latter illustrates that the heritage tourism sector is a vital axis within the national and local economy, as well as to promote its research, conservation, and diffusion. Researchers claim that it can also be an important component for the cultural revitalization of communities. However, how well does a community benefit from the tourist activity of any particular heritage/archaeological site? Can they feel any connection with it if only a handful of community members benefit from it? Using the Cancun example, we will talk about the concept of “heritage tourism”, not only for its e...
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Archaeology in the Southwest is increasingly directing its attention south of the international border as it becomes clear that a picture of the pre-hispanic Southwest is incomplete without taking the Mexican Northwest into... more
Archaeology in the Southwest is increasingly directing its attention south of the international border as it becomes clear that a picture of the pre-hispanic Southwest is incomplete without taking the Mexican Northwest into account."Surveying the Archaeology of Northwest Mexico "presents an overview of recent work in Sonora and Chihuahua, comprising a sort of professional tour of the area. The chapters offer fresh insights into the formation of centers such as Paquime, Cerro de Trincheras, and the Rio Sonora cabaceras. Contributors explore relations between these centers, individual internal organization of the various identifiable polities, and the relation of the whole northwest Mexican region to better-known adjacent ones. The volume underscores that northwest Mexico was not a dependent hinterland but was inhabited by many independent groups throughout prehistory."
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RESUMEN En el Valle de Ónavas, Sonora, México, en la zona media del río Yaqui, se encontraron varias piezas de verde claro a un material de color verde o azul intenso visualmente identificado turquesa durante un trabajo de campo realizado... more
RESUMEN En el Valle de Ónavas, Sonora, México, en la zona media del río Yaqui, se encontraron varias piezas de verde claro a un material de color verde o azul intenso visualmente identificado turquesa durante un trabajo de campo realizado allí en 2004. Se suponía que la fuente de este material provenía del suroeste americano, aunque hay que reconocer que existen ciertas fuentes de turquesa en Sonora, que pueden haber sido explotadas también en la época prehispánica. En este texto se presentan nuevos estudios sobre la turquesa identificada, las posibles fuentes de las piezas de color turquesa del Valle de Ónavas y las posibles implicaciones de gran alcance de estos resultados.
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This paper deals with an international project Mirror Studies and education. The project is web application and website about mirrors, archaeological artefacts made for reflection. It is based on digital cultural heritage and user... more
This paper deals with an international project Mirror Studies and education. The project is web application and website about mirrors, archaeological artefacts made for reflection. It is based on digital cultural heritage and user participation. Authors explain teaching materials from project which are created as workshops for students and usage in the Croatian educational system.
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Research Interests: Archaeology, Experimental Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Gemology, Mineralogy, and 27 moreMesoamerican Archaeology, Archaeological Method & Theory, Archaeometry, Maya Archaeology, Lithic Technology, Lithics, Mesoamerica, Archaeomineralogy, Craft production (Archaeology), Ancient Craftmanship (Archaeology), Ancient Trade & Commerce (Archaeology), Mesoamerican Ethnohistory, Lithic Technology (Archaeology), Arqueología, Traceology, Teoría Arqueológica, Arqueologia, Stone tools, Lithic Analysis, Archaeometallurgy, Mineralogy, Archaeometry, Lithic Raw Material Sourcing, Mesoamerican Studies, Stone carving and lapidary techniques, Traceologie, Ancient Trade Routes, Gemology and the lapidary proces now and of antiquity, and Estudios Mesoamericanos
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Arizona, 1999. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 100-104).
ABSTRACT Due to the repatriation process of 20,475 objects from the site of Snaketown, Arizona, the Arizona State Museum Snaketown Mortuary Documentation Project (2001) was conducted in 2001. This project provided the opportunity to... more
ABSTRACT Due to the repatriation process of 20,475 objects from the site of Snaketown, Arizona, the Arizona State Museum Snaketown Mortuary Documentation Project (2001) was conducted in 2001. This project provided the opportunity to re-analyze the material—which included more than 50 pyrite encrusted mirrors. These items are considered to be one of the most distinctive material elements of the interaction between the American Southwest/Northwest Mexico and Mesoamerica regions and more study is needed. Poorly studied, pyrite mirrors can give insight on numerous topics, such as trade, ideology, and mortuary behavior. This article provides a summary of pyrite mirror analysis, examines the possible functions that may have been performed by the bearers of mirrors at the Snaketown site, and charts the relevance of a site that is one of a few outside of Mesoamerica where large numbers of these artifacts have been found.
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Page 1. BALLCOURTS AND CERAMICS: THE CASE FOR HOHOKAM MARKETPLACES IN THE ARIZONA DESERT David R. Abbott, Alexa M. Smith, and Emiliano Gallaga During the middle Sedentary period (ca. AD 1000-1070 ...
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En muchos sitios de Mesoamérica han sido recuperadas incrustaciones de pirita que dan forma a los espejos prehispánicos de mosaico. La mayoría de los estudios sobre estos objetos se han enfocado en su significado simbólico, morfología,... more
En muchos sitios de Mesoamérica han sido recuperadas incrustaciones de pirita que dan forma a los espejos prehispánicos de mosaico. La mayoría de los estudios sobre estos objetos se han enfocado en su significado simbólico, morfología, comercio y uso, siendo escasos los trabajos que abordan las técnicas de manufactura y organización de la producción de dichos objetos. En este trabajo presentaremos los análisis tecnológicos que hemos aplicado a distintas incrustaciones de pirita de cuatro sitios mesoamericanos, apoyados en la arqueología
experimental y en la aplicación del microscopio electrónico de barrido. De esta manera se han podido identificar con bastante precisión las herramientas empleadas en su elaboración que permitirán distinguir diferentes estilos tecnológicos.
experimental y en la aplicación del microscopio electrónico de barrido. De esta manera se han podido identificar con bastante precisión las herramientas empleadas en su elaboración que permitirán distinguir diferentes estilos tecnológicos.
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Since the beginning of time, humans have been mesmerized by reflective surfaces: a pond of water, a shiny metal, or a clear crystal. Not only because they reflect our image, but also because they show another reality. Because of that,... more
Since the beginning of time, humans have been mesmerized by reflective surfaces: a pond of water, a shiny metal, or a clear crystal. Not only because they reflect our image, but also because they show another reality. Because of that, mirrors were used not only as an esthetic object but also to perform rituals and ceremonies, communicate with the ancestors and the gods, and look to another dimension. Mesoamerican people were no different from other human communities, and concerning mirrors, which they call Tezcatl in Nahuatl, they were used as divinatory and ceremonial powerful items. (article in Chinese).
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Como parte de un compendio de trabajos sobre la pandemia de COVID-19 y el patrimonio cultural, en este breve ensayo describimos como para la Fiesta Grande de Chiapa de Corzo, Chiapas, México, fue un parte aguas para bien en el que las... more
Como parte de un compendio de trabajos sobre la pandemia de COVID-19 y el patrimonio cultural, en este breve ensayo describimos como para la Fiesta Grande de Chiapa de Corzo, Chiapas, México, fue un parte aguas para bien en el que las cofradías, la comunidad y el contexto de la pandemia fue aprovechado para replantearse la celebración, el uso comercial/turístico de la fiesta, y como esta se revitalizo en bien de la celebración.
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Se ha establecido que para el 1000 a. C., el sitio Ceibal, en Guatemala, ya era una comunidad compleja anterior a los centros olmecas de Tabasco. Aunque estos datos son importantes, no toman en consideración otros desarrollos regionales,... more
Se ha establecido que para el 1000 a. C., el sitio Ceibal, en Guatemala, ya era una comunidad compleja anterior a los centros olmecas de Tabasco. Aunque estos datos son importantes, no toman en consideración otros desarrollos regionales, como los de la depresión central del estado de Chiapas, México, y mucho menos a los zoques prehispánicos. En este artículo resaltaremos la región de la Reserva de la Biósfera Selva El Ocote no como un área inhóspita, sino como una región de contacto entre distintas regiones, como la de los mixes, Oaxaca, las regiones pantanosas de Tabasco e incluso lugares más lejanos, como Puebla en el altiplano central mexicano, o las tierras altas de Guatemala. Sus condiciones geográficas sirvieron como posibles rutas de intercambio no solo de bienes, sino de ideas, entre estas distintas regiones, y han sido poco estudiadas, en especial los grupos zoques prehispánicos.
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The oldest macaw specimen in Pre-Hispanic Mexico and the southwestern United States was recovered in Cueva de Avendaños, Chihuahua, Mexico, at the base of the Sierra Madre Occidental. It dates to the Late Archaic/Early Agricultural period... more
The oldest macaw specimen in Pre-Hispanic Mexico and the southwestern United States was recovered in Cueva de Avendaños, Chihuahua, Mexico, at the base of the Sierra Madre Occidental. It dates to the Late Archaic/Early Agricultural period (1929-2057 cal BP). The head is the only preserved element of the macaw and it was mummified through natural causes. Research on this specimen examines its sex identification and its geographical range, questioning whether this specimen belongs to a local population living in the vicinity of the cave. A species distribution model over the last 2000 years was elaborated to ascertain the presence of military macaw in the study area. Our results show that the macaw was non-local, sustaining the idea that the practice of early animal husbandry existed in the early stages of the Pre-Hispanic world, and also suggest that a significant and rapid climate changes characterized the Holocene, affecting the military macaw's distributional range.
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From excavations carried out in the 1950s to 1960, the archaeological site of Chiapa de Corzo has become a central point for reconstructing the cultural history of southern Mesoamerica. In spite of this, some original analyses and... more
From excavations carried out in the 1950s to 1960, the archaeological site of Chiapa de Corzo has become a central point for reconstructing the cultural history of southern Mesoamerica. In spite of this, some original analyses and investigations were not finalized or completely published. The current research project was designed precisely to recover this ancient stratigraphic information and also to broaden our understanding on key locations in the central part of Chiapa de Corzo. In this work we will present the findings of the 2008 field season and review their relevance for confirming or modifying our understanding of this center.
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Tourism activity in general, with the heritage tourism sector in particular, represented the second inflow of foreign currency to Mexico in 2019 (pre-pandemic), with more than USD 24 million. According to local polls, the main purpose of... more
Tourism activity in general, with the heritage tourism sector in particular, represented the second inflow of foreign currency to Mexico in 2019 (pre-pandemic), with more than USD 24 million. According to local polls, the main purpose of travel is leisure. However, more than half of tourists (local and foreigner) who visit Mexico enjoy/visit an archaeological site, a museum, and/or a local community. The latter illustrates that the heritage tourism sector is a vital axis within the national and local economy, as well as to promote its research, conservation, and diffusion. Researchers claim that it can also be an important component for the cultural revitalization of communities. However, how well does a community benefit from the tourist activity of any particular heritage/archaeological site? Can they feel any connection with it if only a handful of community members benefit from it? Using the Cancun example, we will talk about the concept of “heritage tourism”, not only for its economic value but also for its potential for social/cultural assessments for local heritage. Secondly, we talk about how archaeology is performed and how pre-Hispanic sites play along as a tourist attraction, particularly from the Mexican perspective.
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La antigüedad y el hallazgo de la cabeza de guacamaya momificada no sólo arrojarán luz sobre su temprana presencia en la región, sino también sobre el proceso de adaptación de la agricultura y lo que podría significar para estas... more
La antigüedad y el hallazgo de la cabeza de guacamaya momificada no sólo arrojarán luz sobre su
temprana presencia en la región, sino también sobre el proceso de adaptación de la agricultura y lo
que podría significar para estas comunidades tempranas.
temprana presencia en la región, sino también sobre el proceso de adaptación de la agricultura y lo
que podría significar para estas comunidades tempranas.
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Research Interests: Archaeology, Experimental Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Gemology, Mineralogy, and 13 moreArchaeological Method & Theory, Archaeometry, Southwestern Archaeology, Archaeomineralogy, Ancient Trade & Commerce (Archaeology), Arqueología, Traceology, Teoría Arqueológica, Arqueologia, Archaeometallurgy, Mineralogy, Archaeometry, Arqueologia experimental, Stone carving and lapidary techniques, and Gemology and the lapidary proces now and of antiquity
Volume 34 No. 2 Maio-Agosto 2021 RESUMEN En junio de 2015, arqueólogos y estudiantes de la EAHNM visitan el sitio Cañada de El Café, Aldama, Chihuahua, previamente registrado por el Arqueólogo Francisco Mendiola (INAH Chihuahua) en 1996.... more
Volume 34 No. 2 Maio-Agosto 2021 RESUMEN En junio de 2015, arqueólogos y estudiantes de la EAHNM visitan el sitio Cañada de El Café, Aldama, Chihuahua, previamente registrado por el Arqueólogo Francisco Mendiola (INAH Chihuahua) en 1996. En esta visita constatan la existencia de siete conjuntos de pinturas que no habían sido previamente registrados en las paredes de este cañón de rocas sedimentarias. A partir de lo anterior, surge el Proyecto Arqueológico Cañada El Café, que registro un número cercano a 600 pinturas, quince sitios arqueológicos y material lítico, a partir del cual se identificó un componente arcaico en los sitios y posiblemente en las pinturas. A partir de estas evidencias se establece una filiación del área con los grupos de la región del Big Bend, en Texas durante el periodo prehispánico.
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Los estudios en museología, patrimonio y arqueología digital son campos en crecimiento que presentan nuevas ideas y formas de protección del patrimonio cultural, así como nuevos dispositivos para la educación y difusión del mismo. El... more
Los estudios en museología, patrimonio y arqueología digital son campos en crecimiento que presentan nuevas ideas y formas de protección del patrimonio cultural, así como nuevos dispositivos para la educación y difusión del mismo. El Proyecto Estudios sobre Espejos, presentado aquí, es una iniciativa académica y una aplicación web de fácil acceso (Linked Open Data, Open access, Charter on the Preservation of Digital Heritage) donde se recopila información concerniente a espejos, y que esta esté disponible a investigadores, estudiantes y público en general. Aquí se recopila información de sitios arqueológicos, colecciones de museos, investigadores, fuentes históricas y bibliografía relativa a espejos. Como trabajo en proceso, mostramos el caso de la perspectiva mesoamericana como un ejemplo potencial de esta red académica.
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RESUMEN En el Valle de Ónavas, Sonora, México, en la zona media del río Yaqui, se encontraron varias piezas de verde claro a un material de color verde o azul intenso visualmente identificado turquesa durante un trabajo de campo realizado... more
RESUMEN En el Valle de Ónavas, Sonora, México, en la zona media del río Yaqui, se encontraron varias piezas de verde claro a un material de color verde o azul intenso visualmente identificado turquesa durante un trabajo de campo realizado allí en 2004. Se suponía que la fuente de este material provenía del suroeste americano, aunque hay que reconocer que existen ciertas fuentes de turquesa en Sonora, que pueden haber sido explotadas también en la época prehispánica. En este texto se presentan nuevos estudios sobre la turquesa identificada, las posibles fuentes de las piezas de color turquesa del Valle de Ónavas y las posibles implicaciones de gran alcance de estos resultados.
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Reflexiones sobre la repatriación de restos mortuorios en México con respecto al NAGPRA en los E.U.
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This paper deals with an international project Mirror Studies and education. The project is web application and website about mirrors, archaeological artefacts made for reflection. It is based on digital cultural heritage and user... more
This paper deals with an international project Mirror Studies and education. The project is web application and website about mirrors, archaeological artefacts made for reflection. It is based on digital cultural heritage and user participation. Authors explain teaching materials from project which are created as workshops for students and usage in the Croatian educational system. Sažetak: U radu je analiziran Međunarodni projekt Mirror Studies u kontekstu obrazovanja. Taj Projekt je internetska aplikacija i stranica o zrcalima, predmetima koji služe za odraz te se temelji na digitalnom kulturnom naslijeđu i građanskoj participaciji. Autori objašnjavaju korištenje Projekta u edukaciji uz primjenu radionice za učenike u hrvatskom obrazovnom sustavu. Ključne riječi: zrcala, IKT u obrazovanju, internetska aplikacija, hrvatski obrazovni sustav, pedagogija Authors´ data: Ljiljana Đurđević, Primary school Stjepan Radić,
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Presentation of the chimichal results on early presence of Chile (capsicum) on preclassic pots from the site of Chiapa de Corzo, Chiapas.
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The preliminary results of the first season of the El Peñón del Diablo Archaeological Project, a petroglyph site near the community of Janos, Chihuahua, are presented. This project was born out of the interest of the cultural staff of... more
The preliminary results of the first season of the El Peñón del Diablo Archaeological Project, a petroglyph site near the community of Janos, Chihuahua, are presented. This project was born out of the interest of the cultural staff of the Municipality of Janos to carry out research at the site and thus be able, on the one hand to reevaluate the cultural heritage that the community has, and on the other promote tourism. Thanks to the collaboration between the municipality and the Escuela de Antropología e Hístoria de Norte de Mexico (EAHNM), Chihuahua, the systematic recording of all the panels located on the crag was carried out, as well as a total collection of the surface material of an area of 250x150 meters. In the first instance, it was thought that El Peñón del Diablo (The Devil’s Crag) was an isolated element in the valley, but the recording of 25 ovens, more than 200 stone mortars, several bowl metates, and a considerable amount of lithic material indicate an early long-term occupation with many other activities associated with it.
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In 1996 the Archaeologist Francisco Mendiola of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) Chihuahua Center, carried out a survey motivated by the publication in a local newspaper, revealing the existence of the Cañada El... more
In 1996 the Archaeologist Francisco Mendiola of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) Chihuahua Center, carried out a survey motivated by the publication in a local newspaper, revealing the existence of the Cañada El Café site. As a result of this survey, four rock art panels were discovered and recorded on the walls of a sedimentary rock canyon. The site, however, was not subsequently explored. A visit to the site in June 2015 by the archaeologists and students of the Escuela de Antropología e Hístoria de Norte de Mexico (EAHNM), verified the existence of at least four other groupings in addition to those initially reported by Mendiola. Based on these new findings, the Cañada El Café Archaeological Project was created, whose objectives were to record the rock art of the site, establish the development and their possible cultural affiliation, as well as to establish what other types of activities developed around the Cañada El Café site in pre-Hispanic time.
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Resultados de la investigación de la localización de un cañón en la comunidad de Guaymas, Sonora y cuyos resultados apuntan a que fue una de las piezas de artilleria usadas en la defensa del puerto durante la guerra México-Americana del 47.
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In book: Manufactured Light: Mirrors in the Mesoamerican Realm, pp.25-50
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In book: Manufactured Light: Mirrors in the Mesoamerican Realm, pp.51-72
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Research Interests: Archaeology, Experimental Archaeology, Mineralogy, Aztecs, Maya Archaeology, and 9 moreAncient Technology (Archaeology), Ancient jewellery, Experimental archeology, Stone carving and lapidary techniques, Gemology and the lapidary proces now and of antiquity, Lapidaries and Precious Stones, Adornment, SEM ANALYSIS, and MANUFACTURING TRACES
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El objetivo primordial de este libro no sólo es dar a conocer los resultados del Proyecto Arqueológico de Chiapa de Corzo – en el marco del cual se localizó una de las tumbas más importantes de esta comunidad en 2010- también lo es... more
El objetivo primordial de este libro no sólo es dar a conocer los resultados del Proyecto Arqueológico de Chiapa de Corzo – en el marco del cual se localizó una de las tumbas más importantes de esta comunidad en 2010- también lo es exponer de manera sencilla lo que hasta hoy conocemos del desarrollo de la comunidad prehispánica de Chiapa de Corzo y su relevancia para la región.
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No todos los descubrimientos en arqueología se hacen a partir de un proyecto previamente establecido algunas veces se cruzan en el camino y se convierten en fuentes de inspiración que llenan páginas de conocimiento, si estamos preparados... more
No todos los descubrimientos en arqueología se hacen a partir de un proyecto previamente establecido algunas veces se cruzan en el camino y se convierten en fuentes de inspiración que llenan páginas de conocimiento, si estamos preparados para ello. Esta publicación es una de esas ocasiones, donde la oportunidad llego a nuestro escritorio y nos dedicamos a realizar un dictamen de no afectación de un predio como muchos otros en el país. Lejos nos encontrábamos de saber que el predio guardaba un par de sitios con gran información sobre el desarrollo cultural de esta región del estado de Chihuahua. Así fue como, por parte del Centro INAH Chihuahua, se nos comisionó a finales de 2013 para realizar la inspección arqueológica de la superficie correspondiente al Rancho Santa María, municipio de Galeana. Después de realizar los recorridos se identificaron dos sitios arqueológicos nuevos: Rancho Santa María I y II. El primero resulto ser un sitio de larga duración del periodo Prehispánico al Histórico, mientras que el segundo del periodo Arcaico. Este ultimo de gran relevancia ya que este periodo ha sido poco estudiado en el estado y nos proveyó con mas de 350 puntas de proyectil y el registro del entierro más antiguo para el estado de Chihuahua hasta el momento de más de 3000 mil años.
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La realización de este catálogo fue conceptualizada bajo el objetivo de contar con una fuente de imágenes de los artefactos de la región media del Río Yaqui, Sonora, para facilitar la identificación del material arqueológico durante el... more
La realización de este catálogo fue conceptualizada bajo el objetivo de contar con una fuente de imágenes de los artefactos de la región media del Río Yaqui, Sonora, para facilitar la identificación del material arqueológico durante el trabajo de campo y posteriormente durante el análisis de material del Proyecto Arqueológico Valle de Onavas en la porción media del Río Yaqui, Sonora, México1. La falta de investigación en el área, la ausencia de publicaciones y catálogos de material en y alrededor del área de investigación y la oportunidad de acceder a las colecciones de Ekholm en el Museo Americano de Historia Natural en la ciudad de Nueva York en el verano del 2003, así como a las colecciones de R. Pailes en
la Universidad de Oklahoma, proveyeron la oportunidad de crear un registro fotográfico y elaborar un catálogo visual del material recolectado por Ekholm a fínales de los años 1940´s y Pailes en 1970. Este trabajo no muestra todo el material colectado por Ekholm; solo se expone una porción seleccionada ya que como mencionamos anteriormente el objetivo original del catálogo era centrarse en el material de la porción media del Río Yaqui y áreas aledañas donde realicé mi proyecto doctoral.
la Universidad de Oklahoma, proveyeron la oportunidad de crear un registro fotográfico y elaborar un catálogo visual del material recolectado por Ekholm a fínales de los años 1940´s y Pailes en 1970. Este trabajo no muestra todo el material colectado por Ekholm; solo se expone una porción seleccionada ya que como mencionamos anteriormente el objetivo original del catálogo era centrarse en el material de la porción media del Río Yaqui y áreas aledañas donde realicé mi proyecto doctoral.
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Despite the impressive amount of archaeological research conducted in Sonora in the last decades, much of the state remains poorly known. Some initial work has been done in the Onavas Valley, located at the Middle Río Yaqui Valley, but... more
Despite the impressive amount of archaeological research conducted in Sonora in the last decades, much of the state remains poorly known. Some initial work has been done in the Onavas Valley, located at the Middle Río Yaqui Valley, but much still remains to be examined. As a crossroad for prehispanic interaction between northern Mesoamerica, the U.S. Southwest, and the Casas Grandes
region, the area is critical to understanding regional development and interaction. The present publication is the result of the Onavas Valley Archaeological Project (OVAP) as part of my dissertation research at the University of Arizona.
region, the area is critical to understanding regional development and interaction. The present publication is the result of the Onavas Valley Archaeological Project (OVAP) as part of my dissertation research at the University of Arizona.
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La región norteña, tradicionalmente se le ha considerado como un área receptiva, captadora, o sumisa ante las regiones sureñas. En las últimas décadas, con mayor investigación e información de la región, se ha comenzado a replantear esta... more
La región norteña, tradicionalmente se le ha considerado como un área receptiva, captadora, o sumisa ante las regiones sureñas. En las últimas décadas, con mayor investigación e información de la región, se ha comenzado a replantear esta relación "unilateral" a una más participativa por parte de los grupos que habitaron estas regiones. Así como la aportación de las comunidades que participaron activamente en su desarrollo cultural y en sus muy particulares adaptaciones al desierto o regiones áridas del norte, y con su interacción con la misma Mesoamérica.
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Compilation of articles of researchers from CentralAmerica and Mexico about afroamericans. topics goes from archaeology to ethnographic accounts.
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A compilation of articles binded by the few archaeological research conducted in Mexico about the Afromexican.
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En esta tesis se presentan los resultados del análisis cerámico proveniente del sitio de Cerro de Trincheras, Sonora, en el cual se muestran los porcentajes y los tipos cerámicos identificados, tanto monocromos como policromos, locales y... more
En esta tesis se presentan los resultados del análisis cerámico proveniente del sitio de Cerro de Trincheras, Sonora, en el cual se muestran los porcentajes y los tipos cerámicos identificados, tanto monocromos como policromos, locales y foraneos. de igual manera se presentan los resultados petrograficos ralizados a los tipos cerámicos más representativos de la muestra.
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Archaeologists know less about how hunter-gatherers and early agriculturists lived during the Archaic period in the Mexican Northwest compared to the U.S. Southwest. To evaluate Archaic period mobility, lithic technology, and regional and... more
Archaeologists know less about how hunter-gatherers and early agriculturists lived during the Archaic period in the Mexican Northwest compared to the U.S. Southwest. To evaluate Archaic period mobility, lithic technology, and regional and temporal patterns in raw material procurement in northwestern Chihuahua, Mexico, we characterized the trace elemental composition of 61 obsidian artifacts from Rancho Santa María I, II, and El Peñón del Diablo using energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry. People predominantly used Los Jagüeyes obsidian procured locally from secondary deposits, but they also used three additional sources from upland and lowland environments in the Mexican Northwest to make dart projectile points and debitage. Also, they reduced obsidian using bipolar percussion, and there is regional and temporal variation in obsidian source use. This study contributes new insights into how mobility, raw material availability, and nodule size affected lithic technological organization in an understudied region.
Research Interests: Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Obsidian, Lithic Technology, X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) Spectroscopy, and 8 moreSouthwestern Archaeology, Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology, Archaic Period, Projectile Points, Casas Grandes archaeology, Obsidian Sourcing, Chihuahua Archaeology, and West and Northwest Mexican Archaeology
A diferencia de Mesoamérica, el norte de México es un área que ha tenido que luchar por su identidad desde tiempos prehispánicos. En buena medida, esto se debe a una especie de vacío material y, por ende, de otro vacío en cuanto al... more
A diferencia de Mesoamérica, el norte de México es un área que ha
tenido que luchar por su identidad desde tiempos prehispánicos. En buena medida, esto se debe a una especie de vacío material y, por ende, de otro vacío en cuanto al registro material de su complejidad de pensamiento y de su imaginario colectivo referido. En consecuencia, la región del norte de México ha dependido de la visión e interpretación de las comunidades que sí desarrollaron esos registros materiales; es decir,
desde Mesoamérica. Por ello, se propone un cambio de chip
que modifique esta visión unilateral por una bilateral y compleja.
tenido que luchar por su identidad desde tiempos prehispánicos. En buena medida, esto se debe a una especie de vacío material y, por ende, de otro vacío en cuanto al registro material de su complejidad de pensamiento y de su imaginario colectivo referido. En consecuencia, la región del norte de México ha dependido de la visión e interpretación de las comunidades que sí desarrollaron esos registros materiales; es decir,
desde Mesoamérica. Por ello, se propone un cambio de chip
que modifique esta visión unilateral por una bilateral y compleja.
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Prehistoric rock art is often analyzed predominantly as the product of artists' intentions to create public representations of their perceptual experiences and mental imagery. However, this representation-centered approach tends to... more
Prehistoric rock art is often analyzed predominantly as the product of artists' intentions to create public representations of their perceptual experiences and mental imagery. However, this representation-centered approach tends to overlook the performative role of much material engagement. Many forms of rock art are better conceived of as traces from artists' repeated engagement with a surface, including with previous traces. For these artists, a potentially more relevant intention was ritualized interaction, such as communion and petition, which were realized as materially mediated transactions with the agencies that were believed to animate specific areas of the environment. If so, we can expect the motifs to be strongly clustered on ritually attractive areas, rather than to be evenly distributed on canvas-like surfaces that would maximize their visibility as public representations. Here we propose a novel way of testing the interaction-centered approach in terms of preferential attachment, which is a concept from network science that describe the well-known social phenomenon that popular agents tend to attract more followers. We applied this approach to a case study of an archaic site in Chihuahua, Mexico, and found that its petroglyph distribution has the form of a power law, which is consistent with preferential attachment. We conclude that this approach could be developed into a measure of the entanglement between ritual processes and products in prehistoric material engagement.
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En este trabajo se presenta una muy breve descripción de los restos mortuorios localizados al interior del sitio Cueva de Avendaño, Chihuahua en 2016, los cuales apuntan a que se trató de un complejo contexto funerario que, por sus... more
En este trabajo se presenta una muy breve descripción
de los restos mortuorios localizados al interior del sitio Cueva de Avendaño, Chihuahua en 2016, los cuales apuntan a que se trató de
un complejo contexto funerario que, por sus características,
guarda múltiples semejanzas con algunos ritos mortuorios
practicados por grupos indígenas contemporáneos en el noroeste
de México. La diversidad de los entierros nos hablan de varios aspectos, como el cuidado y preocupación de proveer un destino final a un infante, hasta el de un posible evento de brujería o rituales ceremoniales.
de los restos mortuorios localizados al interior del sitio Cueva de Avendaño, Chihuahua en 2016, los cuales apuntan a que se trató de
un complejo contexto funerario que, por sus características,
guarda múltiples semejanzas con algunos ritos mortuorios
practicados por grupos indígenas contemporáneos en el noroeste
de México. La diversidad de los entierros nos hablan de varios aspectos, como el cuidado y preocupación de proveer un destino final a un infante, hasta el de un posible evento de brujería o rituales ceremoniales.
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Prehispanic Northwest Mexico, that area from the international frontier south to the southern borders of the Mexican states of Sonora and Chihuahua, is an immense gray zone. Whether it was peripheral to the prehistory of the Southwest... more
Prehispanic Northwest Mexico, that area from the international frontier south to the southern borders of the Mexican states of Sonora and Chihuahua, is an immense gray zone. Whether it was peripheral to the prehistory of the Southwest United States/Northwest Mexico Culture Area or not, it has been peripheral in the minds and theories of archaeologists (Phillips 1989). Traditionally they have explained cultural developments in the region using one of two models. Either these developments were simply the southern fringes of the Hohokam or Mogollon traditions of the Southwest (Haury 1976), or they resulted from the intrusion of Mesoamerican merchants from the south, who set up major centers as trade outposts (Di Peso 1974, 1983). More recently these debates have been recast in models of world systems that reach south to Mesoamerica (Di Peso 1983; Whitecotton and Pailes 1986; Weigand 1982) or peer polities developing in situ based primarily on local ecological relationships (Minnis 1989). At the core of all of these debates is the nature of economic relations at and between major Northwest centers such as Casas Grandes in Chihuahua and Cerro de Trincheras in Sonora (Figure 10.1). Charles Di Peso (1979a:158159) identified Casas Grandes and Cerro de Trincheras as Mesoamerican commercial centers. Two groups of Mesoamerican donors entered the Northwest by A.D. 1100 to establish the two centers, and they both withdrew south in the midfourteenth century. The two groups of merchants operated independently of each other, gathering goods from the southwestern cultures to the north and then shipping them south to their home polities in Mesoamerica. Di Peso argued that Cerro de Trincheras was "a spectacular hillside trenched defense system" built by Mesoamerican merchants to protect the marine shell industry at the nearby site of La Playa (Di Peso 1979a:158). From the site of La Playa these merchants shipped bulk raw materials to the Hohokam shell artisans. Di Peso's theory about Cerro de Trincheras is only one of several that attempt to account for the site in terms of specialized functions or in terms of processes centered outside of northern Sonora. Among the oldest of these ideas are the notions that the site was a refuge fort (McGee 1898) or that it was a massive terraced agricultural field (Huntington 1912). Numerous scholars have suggested that Cerro de Trincheras was a rude station, specializing in the production of shell jewelry, at the southern periphery of