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Ancient Mesoamerica News Updates 2011, No. 27: Nayarit, Mexico - 287 INAH Receives Collection of Objects Belonging to the Aztatlán Culture
Yesterday, Wednesday May 4, 2011 , the National Institutes of Anthropology and History Informed That They Have Received a collection of 287 That objects belong to the Aztatlán culture. This Florish entre culture circa AD 200-1350 in the northwest of the lexical state of Nayarit. The collection WAS DURING Formed Some 25 years by the Mexican plastic artist Vladimir Cora, Who reside in the town of Acaponeta, Nayarit, Located about halfway entre Tepic and Mazatlan. The INAH bulletin Provides information on the origin of the collection and the culture and presents Aztatlán Some short descriptions of iconography (edited by amanu):
INAH receives archaeological pieces Aztatlán culture - An archaeological collection consisting about 300 pieces dating from 200 to 1350 AD, considered one of the most important Aztatlán related to culture that developed in the northwestern lowlands of Nayarit, was received by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) from the hands of artist Vladimir Cora.
Over 25 years, Vladimir Cora formed and preserved the archaeological collection at his home in the city of Acaponeta, thus avoiding traffic and marketing outside the entity it recently handed over the nation, through the delegation INAH in Nayarit, where he will make the recording, study and restoration of the 287 pre-Columbian objects that compose it.
The collection of these objects prehispanic, which allow specialists to deepen their knowledge of the ceremonial practices of this ancient civilization, is composed mainly of pottery, among which are vessels decorated with designs allusive to the ritual sacrifice and sun worship, and copper bells , shell beads and finely cut green stone, travertine urns and zoomorphic ( tecali ).
also excel seals, spindle whorls smooth and decorated, projectile points and figurines, some of them are anthropomorphic Mazapa style and still retain pigment residues. Mauricio Garduño
Archaeologist Ambriz, Nayarit INAH Center, who has specialized in the study of the archeology of the coastal nuclear Aztatlán said the handover ceremony of this collection is relevant to regional archeology, because it is "a rare display of representative material culture of these ancient populations over time. "
also said, this collection is a reflection of social experience gained over at least 15 centuries of continuous occupation in the fertile floodplain located in this coastal area, covering a long period of adaptation and transformation of the environment from Terminal Formative (0-150/200 AD) to the Late Postclassic (1350-1530 AD). "
Among the symbolic designs identified in the vessels of the complex-dating Aztatlán Postclassic (850/900-1350 AD) - are celestial bands, knives for sacrifice ( tecpatl ) tied with feathers, sea shells sectioned, rattlesnakes, snakes Fire ( Xiuhcoatl ) and staggered frets.
addition, these tools are represented high-ranking personages richly dressed wearing masks of Tlaloc, as well as numerous skulls associated with balls of grass ( zacatapayolli ) that were embedded in the long bones and maguey thorns, commonly used in self-sacrifice ceremonies in annual ritual cycle. These elements, as well as the glyph for the planet Venus, have been identified for the first time in the iconographic repertoire Aztatlán.
"With this wealth of information will be possible to form a more comprehensive scheme of religious concepts and rituals of propitiatory character associated with the complex ceremonial Aztatlán Postclassic period," said Mauricio Garduño expert.
Preliminary inventory and packaging of pre-Hispanic pieces were made by Paula García Reyes restorer and archaeologist Geylú Valderrama. It is noteworthy that the transfer was made by the same strict standards security with support from the Federal Highway Police, until he arrived at Nayarit Regional Museum in the city of Tepic.
archaeological collection is currently being guarded in the hold of cultural property of the museum, from its registration, restoration and curation will screen the design and installation of a temporary exhibition on coastal archeology Aztatlán, which it plans to carry out end of 2012 in that place. (Source INAH)