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Eduardo Matos Moctezuma

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Born January 1, 1940 (86 years old)
Also known as: Eduardo Moctezuma Matos
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Tlatelolco

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Archeological papers on majestic Aztec city-state that document research at site from 1944 to 1957, originally published in Memorias de la Academia Mexicana de la Historia. Organized chronologically by research period, papers were authored by noted scholars like Pablo Martínez del Río, Robert H. Barlow, Antonieta Espejo, et al. Chapters offer invaluable insights not only into history and cultures of Tlatelolco but into methods and changes of archaeological investigation during formative years of field in Mexico.

Treasures of the Great Temple

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Depicts the many artifacts "uncovered during a 10-year excavation in the center of Mexico City," now housed in the Museum of the Great Temple.

Aztecs

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Study and examination of Aztec society, art, rites, and ceremonies before the Aztec empire fell to the Spanish in 1521.

Life and death in the Templo Mayor

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In 1978, workmen in downtown Mexico City accidentally discovered a beautifully preserved monolithic sculpture at the foot of the main temple of the Aztecs. This important find led to a massive excavation that continues today under the direction of archaeologist Eduardo Matos Moctezuma. The great temple, now known as the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan symbolized the axis mundi, the Aztec center of the world, where the sky, the earth, and underworld met. In Life and Death in the Templo Mayor, Matos Moctezuma uses his unmatched familiarity with the archaeological details to present a concise and well-supported development of this theme.

Escultura monumental mexica

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"Esta obra presenta la historia, los antecedentes, las características físicas, la interpretación cultural y el análisis de la iconografía de las grandes esculturas que hemos heredado de los mexicas: la Coatlicue, la Piedra del Sol, la Piedra de Tizoc, la Piedra del Antiguo Arzobispado, la Coyolxauhqui y la Tlaltecuhtli. Se trata de un profundo análisis de la historia de los colosales monolitos que son fundamentales para comprender la cosmogonía mexica, reconstruir nuestro pasado remoto y edificar nuestra identidad actual. El volumen Escultura monumental mexica consta de ocho apartados: el primero es una visión general de la sociedad mexica, el segundo es un acercamiento al arte escultórico de esa civilización y el resto de los apartados describen las colosales piedras. El libro no se limita a explorar los valores estéticos, el contenido histórico y las funciones litúrgicas de los seis monolitos en cuestión, sino que aborda las miradas que estas obras maestras han suscitado a lo largo del tiempo entre conocedores y profanos, mexicanos y extranjeros, hispanistas e indigenistas, entre otros"--Publisher's website (Fondo de Cultura Económica).