La ciudad perdida
Subtitle: raíces de los soberanos tarascos
By: Grégory Pereira y Eliseo F. Padilla Gutiérrez, coordinadores
Contributors: Centre d'études mexicaines et centraméricaines (Mexico City, Mexico); Museo Nacional de Antropología (Mexico)
Edition: Primera edición.
Series: Ediciones del Museo Nacional de Antropología; Museos y galerías; Museos y galerías; Ediciones del Museo Nacional de Antropología
Publisher: Centro de estudios mexicanos y centroamericanos; Secretaría de Cultura; Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia; Museo Nacional de Antropología
Published: 2018
Place of publication: México
Language: spa
Number of pages: 121
ISBN-13: 9782111521360; 9786075391175
Subjects: Tarasco Indians; Exhibitions; Antiquities; Indians of Mexico; Kings and rulers; Elite (Social sciences); History
Description: The "Ciudad Perdida" (Lost City) is the name the present Indians to Malpaís Prieto, a Pre-Hispanic site located in the northern part of the state of Michoacán, and was founded around 1250 b. C. by Chichimeca groups. The descendants of these Chichimec groups, known as Uacúsechas, would later establish the ruling Tarascan dynasty on the shores of Lake Pátzcuaro, which from its capital, Tzintzuntzan, would control much of the present state of Michoacan and bordering areas. This empire was in its apogee when the Spaniards arrived in Mexico. The exhibition of 87 archaeological pieces represents the outcome of the latest results of the archaeological research that begun more than three decades ago by CEMCA specialists in the northern region of the Michoacán-Guanajuato Volcanic Field (MGVF) in Mexico, one of the largest volcanic fields of the Trans Mexican Volcanic Belt (TMVB). "The interdisciplinary and inter-institutional effort has allowed the reconstruction of the paleoenvironment, dating of historical volcanic events associated with the human occupation of the basin of Zacapu, archaeometric characterization of materials as well as osteological investigations of anthropological and ethnozoological order." (HKB Translation) --Page 11.
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Museo Nacional de Antropología e Historia in Mexico City, from May 1st to July 29, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 116-118).
Table of contents: title: Prólogo / Antonio Saborit; title: Presentación / Jasinto Robles Camacho; title: Zacapu y las raíces del señorío tarasco / Grégory Pereira; title: El Malpaís de Zacapu: un entorno modelado por volcanes / Antoine Dorison, Claus Siebe, Nancí Reyes Guzmán; title: Malpaís Prieto. Una ciudad prehispánica / Marion Forest; title: Vivir en el Malpaís: arqueología de las unidades habitacionales / Marion Forest, Elsa Jadot, Aurélie Manin; title: El recinto sagrado: espacio de los dioses y de los muertos / Grégory Pereira, Dominique Michelet; title: El mundo de los muertos / Grégory Pereira, Issac Barrientos, Sélima Natahi; title: Animales sagrados / Aurélie Manin; title: Artesanos especializados y bienes de prestigio en tiempos del Malpaís / Veronique Darras, Elsa Jadot, Manuel Espinoza Pesqueira, Isabel Medina-González; title: Del hallazgo a la exhibición: la conservación del patrimonio arqueológico e la Ciudad Perdida / Isabel Medina-González, Laura Sánchez Pareyón Aveleyra; title: El apogeo tarasco / Dominique Michelet; title: Insignias de prestigio y poder de los señores tarascos / Eliseo F. Padilla Gutiérrez; title: Catálogo / Osisirs Quezada Ramírez.