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Ancient Mesoamerica News Updates 2011, No. 19: Mexico City - The Exhibit six ancient cities in Mesoamerica. Society and Environment Opened March 17
Yesterday, Thursday March 17, 2011, the exhibit "Six ancient cities in Mesoamerica. Society and Environment" STD Officially Opened doors to the public. The National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) posted on the bulletin Following the opening of the exhibit at the National Museum of Anthropology (MNA) in Mexico City (edited by amanu):
"Six Cities in Mesoamerica "opens at the Museum of Anthropology - For the first time, 411 pieces archaeological-some never before exhibited, from six cities of ancient Mexico, are presented in the National Museum of Anthropology , in an exhibition that brings together the former cities of Monte Alban, Palenque, El Tajin, Teotihuacan, Tenochtitlan and Tlatelolco.
This is the great exhibition entitled six ancient cities in Mesoamerica. Society and Environment, opened last night Alfonso de Maria y Campos, general director of National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), who extended an invitation extended to the public to visit this exhibition bears witness to "a history shared that unites us as Mexicans. "
After indicating that this exhibition can be enjoyed with the same ticket to the Museum of Anthropology, INAH holder highlighted the efforts of various departments of the Institute to bring together this unique archaeological collection and the dedication of several specialists for conservation and restoration of pre-Hispanic works on display for the first time, including three wooden lintels that belonged to a building Tlatelolco, preserved through the work of 15 years by the expert Luisa Mainou. Six
ancient cities in Mesoamerica, "he said represents a unique opportunity" for people, particularly the new generations come to know this part of Mexico. We want and hope that in four or five months of his tenure, everyone can see.
"The Mesoamerican civilization had a single trunk and developed a huge variability of traits, this was due in large part because these people had to build and consolidate an urban reality different from their environment", said De Maria and Campos, explaining the premise of this exhibition.
At the opening ceremony, accompanied by Diana Magaloni, director of the National Museum of Anthropology, Professor Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, chief curator of the exhibition, commented that only six companies worldwide civilization reached as part of their own development: Egypt, Mesopotamia, China and the Indus Valley (Pakistan) in regard to Africa and East, while in our continent and highlights the Andes Mesoamerica. The large
Mesoamerica, from five centuries before our era until the English arrived, the different cities, under-developed various aspects expressions such as writing, economics, and predictive sciences, monumental architecture, art figurative and long-distance trade, as well as an ideology justifying myths supported by social differences.
Most interesting, said INAH emeritus researcher, is that all these civilizations were able to flourish in different environments: Monte Alban in a mountainous region in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca, Palenque in the Chiapas jungle, El Tajin in wetlands of the coast Veracruz, the twin cities of Tenochtitlan and Tlatelolco in a lacustrine environment in Central Mexico and Teotihuacan on a plateau in this same region.
six ancient cities in Mesoamerica, "continued the archaeologist Eduardo Matos, provides the public a dual education:" On one hand, the creative power of man do not be discouraged by anything, and, secondly, the way the Mesoamerican centers were proposed to base their housing, regardless of adverse events and places in which was embodied his idea of \u200b\u200bthe universe. "
stand in the assembly of recent archaeological discovery or had a long process of restoration, some examples are: tombstones Zapotec, the Board of the Temple of the Foliated Cross and the burial mask of the Red Queen, both of Palenque, the stems of Building the pillars of the Pillars of Tajin, Teotihuacan monolith depicting the earth monster, a canoe that sailed through the canals of Tenochtitlan and three wooden lintels Tlatelolco.
Although the general curator of Mesoamerican Six Cities was in charge Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, INAH emeritus researcher, the sections for each city had to be responsible to specialists in each of these: Martha Carmona (Monte Alban), Laura Fillion (Palenque), Patricia Castillo (El Tajin), Alejandro Sarabia ( Teotihuacan) and Bertina Olmedo (Tenochtitlan and Tlatelolco).
Museography plays the architectural features of each city, both ceremonial and residential spaces, one example is the recreation of a Zapotec tomb, the false arch of the Mayan temples, the tennis ball game and El Tajin a residential complex with its walls painted Teotihuacan, to name a few.
Other materials that complement the exhibition, are recreations of how these cities should look at their best, in addition to their videos on the most representative offices: the gold in Monte Alban, Palenque stucco, paint mural in El Tajin, Teotihuacan ceramics The feather in Tenochtitlan and Tlatelolco marketing. (Source INAH)