At number 108, volume XVII of Mexican Archaeology Magazine, archaeologist Laura Fillion Nadal and restorer Tadeo Silva Velandia described in his article "The restoration of the pectoral or bat mask from the National Museum of Anthropology, conservation of this outstanding piece of Mexico assets. The pectoral or mask was found in 1949 in the grave goods of an individual at Monte Alban (100 BC - 200 AD) which saw the archaeologist R. Acosta in the Annals of the Museum. When performing the remodeling of the rooms of the National Anthropology Museum conservators realized the mask showed mismatches in the placement of its constituent parts and destabilization of the material that binds as well as the 25 pieces that form.
Restorers proceeded to develop a resin according to international standards that would be harmless to the piece in its role of uniting the parties, since the material was developed at the time he was destabilized (altered by the passage of time ) and the pieces do not fit perfectly, at the same time, this destabilization could damage parts of finely polished jade.
Roberto García Moll archaeologist and historian Marcela Salas Cuesta published the article "Historical Archaeology, history and physical anthropology", which presented a summary of the history of the construction of the Metropolitan Cathedral in Mexico City also known as the Old Cathedral of Mexico, which provide data as the source of its construction, its historical significance, and the excavations that have taken place there.
The Metropolitan Cathedral in Mexico City was built in the XVI century from English architects drawings of a columned building type, derived from the Cathedral of Granada, with a square, two side chapels and towers. Construction began just months after the fall of the Great Tenochtitlan (1521), and by 1525 was open for worship, some historians say that the Cathedral was completed in 1532.
archaeologist Antonio Garcia Cubas was out in 1881 the first excavations in the area of \u200b\u200bthe Cathedral of Mexico, in order to determine the exact spot where stood the first building in the complex construction.
The prominent anthropologist, archaeologist and historian Eduardo Matos Moctezuma published the dossier "to preserve and restore", which recalls that in 1964 was located in what is now Porrua Bookstore, corner of Argentina, Justo Sierra in the Historic Center Mexico City, a shrine with mural paintings which featured stylized figures representing the god Tlaloc. Matos Moctezuma himself was appointed to the forefront of conservation work on the painting. Matos Moctezuma
reports that found on the west side of the mural plaster patches covering damaged parts and loss of the original paint from pre-Hispanic times, so began the rescue work of the mural. In the dossier, the archaeologist also tells how later, when excavations were conducted Temple located in the northern area, a clay figure representing Mictlantecuhtli, which showed a broken left arm, so they developed a new arm hand to replace the damaged parts. After citing the above examples, the anthropologist reflects how in recent years, restoration has become an importance that had not seen before, because every time there is a greater awareness of the need to preserve the heritage of ancient cultures. In that sense, it highlights once again gives scholars turn to the various disciplines that can contribute to the restoration. restorative Agustín Espinosa wrote the article "A Brief History of the restoration in Mexico," which chronicles the process of shaping the discipline and the historical moment when it emerges in Mexico. Among the international background notes referred to in the last quarter of the nineteenth century did the profession in Europe.
In the last years of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries took place in Mexico the early work of restoration, when Porfirio Diaz Leopoldo Batres appointed inspector and curator of Archaeological Monuments of Mexico. In 1939 he established the National Institute of Anthropology and History, in 1943 the teacher Almela INAH Melia founded in a workshop for the treatment of graphic documents, and in 1961 established the Department of catalog and Restoration for Cultural Heritage. Citizenship
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