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A Seminar: Assessing Current Understanding and Charting Future Research in Basin of México Archaeology: Conference held at San Miguel Ometusco, September 2-7, 2007

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Research Year:  2007
Culture:  Teotihuacán,Aztec
Chronology:  Archaic - Classic
Location:  Estado de México, México
Site:  Teotihuacán

Table of Contents

Abstract
Resumen
Summary
Conference Description
Presentations
Field Trips: La Ventilla, Atetelco (Teotihuacán), and Ecatepec Region Salt-making Sites
Final Day - Open Discussion
Publication Plans
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Sources Cited

Abstract

An international conference on the archaeology of the Basin of Mexico was convened at San Miguel Ometusco in the Teotihuacán Valley, Mexico between September 2 and 8, 2007. The goal of the meeting was to take stock of what is currently known about Basin of Mexico prehistory, and to identify future directions for archaeological research in this region. The fifteen scholars who attended the conference made formal presentations during the first four days of the meeting. The final day was devoted to discussions reviewing important issues addressed in the presentations and priorities for future archaeological research and conservation in the region. Two field trips were made to archaeological sites in the northern Basin.

Resumen

Entre el 2 y el 8 de septiembre del 2007, se llevó a cabo en San Miguel Ometusco, en el Valle de Teotihuacan, una conferencia internacional que abordó la problemática de la arqueología de la Cuenca de México. El propósito de esta reunión fue el de evaluar a grandes rasgos lo que se conoce hasta el momento de la época prehispánica y colonial de la Cuenca de México, e identificar las direcciones futuras de las investigaciones arqueológicas en esta región. Los quince investigadores que participaron en este seminario hicieron presentaciones formales durante los cuatro primeros días de la reunión. El último día se dedicó a la discusión revisando los temas y puntos importantes que se hicieron en las presentaciones y proponiendo prioridades para la investigación y conservación arqueológica de la región a futuro. Durante el transcurso de la semana se hicieron dos visitas a sitios arqueológicos de la parte norte de la Cuenca.


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Submitted 07/28/2008 by:
Ian Robertson
Department of Anthropology
Stanford University
igr@stanford.edu

Larry Gorenflo
Department of Landscape Architecture
The Pennsylvania State University

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