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Metro Collective Transport Excavations Important for Archaeology |
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martes, 06 de julio de 2010 |
 Archaeologist Raul Arana
Construction of the Metro Collective Transport System tunnels have benefited Mexican Archaeology by uncovering vestiges found in Mexico City. In 4 decades more than 20,000 objects from Prehispanic, Colonial, and Modern ages have been recovered, allowing verify information from historical documents.
Archaeologist Raul Arana, who worked in the first archaeological salvage tasks conducted by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) in 1967, when the first 2 Metro lines were being constructed, declared so.
Explorations were performed at densely populated places that would have not been excavated in other circumstances, such as Izazaga Avenue and the Zocalo Square, mentioned the archaeologist at a conference presented as part of the 40 years of the Metro commemorations.
At his lecture about the first participations of INAH in archaeological exploration at the Metro excavations, Arana recalled how the first 2 lines were perpendicular, and how the other lines were created parallel to the first ones, forming a reticule that to present cover the city.
Tunnels and some of the stations were built at 12 to 16 meters depth, which brings opportunity to revise different stratigraphic layers and gathering information about Prehistory in the region.
He recalled that when INAH archaeologists knew that the Metro would be constructed under Palacio Nacional, crossing different streets of the Historical Center, where the ancient city of Tenochtitlan was, they saw the opportunity of recovering material and information only known at the time by historical documents.
“As archaeologists the news impressed and moved us, since excavating in front of Palacio Nacional, in the back of the Cathedral, was a dream for many of us, and at the time seem impossible”.
It was then when the former Department of Prehistory, in charge of Jose Luis Lorenzo, launched an archaeological salvage program that allowed studying settlements at Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco and Tlacopan, commented Arana at the conference presented in Templo Mayor.
“After opening the pavement, we were able to observe the transformations that the city has suffered since Mexicas dwelled it; Colonial times, the Independent age up to middle 20th century. We were founding material history of the city”.
Arana recalled that since the first dwell was open, a variety of material was found, from fragments and complete ceramic pieces such as plates, vases, figurines, censers, and osseous rests.
Regarding constructions, rests of walls and shrines were found, some of them with stucco and mural painting now guarded at the National Museum of Anthropology, where all the pieces found between 1967 and the 1970’s decades are stored.
Arana remarked that findings from the construction of Lines 1 and 2 were the most important “because they provide the highest quantity of information and archaeological material; nearly 13,000 pieces were rescued”.
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Patrimonio sumergido, 30 años |
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martes, 06 de julio de 2010 |
 En lo que resta de 2010 el área de investigación subacuática organizará presentaciones académicas. En 1980 se creó el entonces Departamento de Arqueología Subacuática. Fotos
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Mayas no citan fin del mundo |
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martes, 06 de julio de 2010 |
 Los mayas se preocupaban por efectuar rituales que garantizaran el ciclo por venir. De los 15 mil textos mayas, dos aluden al 2012 pero como un final de periodo. |
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“Zapata in Morelos” Exhibition Inaugurated at MNH |
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martes, 06 de julio de 2010 |
 Contemporary artwork
A hundred historical objects related to the revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata; 30 large format photographs that capture Morelos state landscape, as well as contemporary artwork related to him integrate the exhibition to be open in July 6th 2010, “Zapata en Morelos” at the National Museum of History “Castillo de Chapultepec” (MNH).
The exhibition shows the geography transformed by the Revolution, “as a way to get even with the people that made the Revolution”, and so, images of contemporary Morelos state are displayed, a hundred years after the movement.
During the visit to the press around the exhibition organized by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) and the Government of the State of Morelos, details of the show were made known, which will be open until August 2010 and includes a video with 60 images of Emiliano Zapata’s face, created by artists of different trends.
The show is part of the commemoration of the Centennial of the Revolution and the Bicentennial of the Independence of Mexico, and it was presented by the national coordinator of Museums and Exhibitions, Lourdes Herrasti, the director of the National Museum of History, and curator of the exhibition, Salvador Rueda and the Morelos State Tourism secretary, Hugo Salgado.
Historian Salvador Rueda remarked that during years historians have filled up pages of specialized books regarding Zapatismo, but simple research about the theme appeared difficult, to recover the event in its human aspect, being this the novelty of the exhibition.
Among important items exhibited stands out the presidential chair where he never wanted to use, and the saddle he was using when he was shot, as well as 2 unpublished pictures, one of him as a child, and other of his face.
The exhibition is complemented with a display of objects used in Charreria, a discipline practiced by Zapata. Both will be open during July and August 2010, Tuesday to Sunday from 9:00 to 17:00 hours at the National Museum of History “Castillo de Chapultepec”.
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¿Cuándo el cuerpo es un jardín prohibido? |
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martes, 06 de julio de 2010 |
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 Sé siempre un buen amante” (Yalal ad-Din Rumi, 1207-1273)
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