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DOCUMENT Citation Only Alicia Torres Porras. Leobardo Pacheco Arias. Jesús Sánchez Jacobo.

This is an abstract from the "Democratizing Heritage Creation: How-To and When" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the last four years, in the UNESCO World Heritage Site: Prehistoric Caves in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca, effective relationships have been strengthened and created between the ejido commissary and the cultural managers of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). Through constructive dialogue, knowledge sharing,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chip Colwell.

This paper examines a "mythic" settlement named Makak, located at the edge of Le Morne Cultural Landscape, a World Heritage Site, in Mauritius. A recent ethnohistoric study, conducted in collaboration with Mauritian colleagues used an array of oral, written, and material evidence to show that Makak is an informal place name for an area first settled by French colonists in the 1700s, then by several prominent "Free Colored" families in the 1800s, and finally depopulated as residents were forcibly...