Las excavaciones arqueológicas de Manuel Gamio en Copilco.

Una visión a través de las fuentes documentales

Abstract

In August 1917 Manuel Gamio began archaeological explorations in the quarry of Copilco, Coyoacan, Mexico City. The fundamental purpose of these investigations was to shed light on so-called “los Cerros” or “Archaic culture” within the cultural sequence of the Valley of Mexico. The discovery of human remains, ceramics, figurines, and other cultural objects attracted the attention of the press, Excélsior and Revista de Re-vistas. The aim of this article is to correlate the archaeological information on the site with documentation in newspapers, magazines, archives, and reports from the second decade of the twentieth century, at a time when archaeology was beginning to emerge as a scientific discipline in Mexico.