Protección del Patrimonio Cultural en México, a través de la Dirección de Registro Público de Monumentos y Zonas Arqueológicos e Históricos

DOCUMENT Citation Only Omar Silis García. Pablo Daniel López Sánchez.

In this presentation I’ll review the public relevance concerning archaeological property "Bienes muebles", in particular custody. I’ll describe the registry procedures and its scope as a cultural heritage legal instrument. Additionally, my objective is to present the way by which "Ley Federal sobre Monumentos y Zonas Arqueológicos, Artísticos e Históricos" enactment proclaimed the monuments as national properties, this way the law obligates the owners to register their monuments. We can...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elide Núñez Escaldón.

Not long ago a public register of moveable and immovable goods of Mexican cultural heritage was implemented. This system has been changed and modified to improve it. In general terms, the "Sistema Único de Registro Público de Monumentos y Zonas Arqueológicas e Históricas (SURPMZAH)" consists of an identification, description and finally the assignment of an official number to the piece to assist in the recovery of the object if stolen. I believe the system has unsuccessfully transformed and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maribel Piña Calva. Pedro Francisco Sánchez Nava.

El registro de los monumentos arqueológicos, muebles e inmuebles, que de acuerdo con la legislación mexicana vigente, son patrimonio de la nación, implica, amén de un ejercicio académico, un instrumento legal de protección, en tanto que significa el reconocimiento de la existencia física de dichos bienes patrimoniales, a través de su inscripción en un Registro Público. Esta tarea, iniciada hace más de setenta y cinco años, está encomendada al Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH),...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Felisa Aguilar. Ana Rugerio. Ulises Cano.

Fossils are physical evidence that provides important information in order to figure out and explain the origin and evolution of life on Earth. For this reason, an accurate recollection and preparation are necessary. A precise data collecting also is required. Fossils must be preserved in scientific collections where they will be studied and where they will receive the status of specimens. In addition, for non-scientists these objects could be curiosities of the past from Nature which are also...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nancy Dominguez.

In 2010 the "Sistema Único de Registro de Monumentos y Zonas Arqueológicos e Históricos" was developed to face the need of having a modern and strong technological support capable to cover the legal, academic and institutional aspects that the Public Registry required as a fundamental area of the Institution. It has the duty to guarantee information for query and monitoring activities about federal and particular monuments involved in the system. Due to the vast universe of information which...

DOCUMENT Citation Only María Yanire Martínez Ceceña.

Mexico is a country with a cultural heritage that has given him a unique identity. We have a wealth of collections ranging from the paleontological and archaeological, to the historical and ethnographic. These collections require a control that will allow both federal institutions and individuals to be aware of what they have under their care, as it is one of the serious problems they face today. One of the main objectives of this brief presentation will be: To give an insight into the control...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Isaac David Ramirez Rizo.

Los trabajos que realiza a diario la Dirección de Registro Público en el área de Bienes Muebles, generan información fundamental para conocer la dinámica actual que tienen las colecciones arqueológicas en el territorio nacional. A partir de la identificación vestigios dispersos por los Estados de la República Mexicana y tras la creación de la ley de 1972 del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, se dispuso realizar el registro de bienes; uno de sus objetivos fue regular y conocer la...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Silvia Mesa Dávila.

The paper we present reveals the legal basis of the Mexican cultural heritage public registry and the consequences of the relation it sustain with it´s statements and academic interests involved in the description of archaeological materials. Accordingly, the real work begins of typology, chronology and cultural classification, associated with the sites and related archaeological materials, as well as, its preservation status. All this information is stored, organized and published, in a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Vania Carrillo Bosch. Aline Magnoni. Travis Stanton.

The objective of the paper is to present and compare the notions held by the contemporary residents of the town of Yaxcabá, the municipality’s head, and the village of Yaxunah in Central Yucatán, about the protection and conservation of the archaeological sites on their lands. Even though Yaxcabá and Yaxunah are less than 20 km apart, these two population centers display social, political, and economic differences and have been influenced by varying amounts of exposure to archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Wanda Hernández Uribe.

As a result from the restructuring and updating of the Public Registry of Monuments and Archaeological Areas, attention that was traditionally given to the broad nature of mobile, prehispanic or archaeological goods, is incorporated formally to the Public Registry as well as the complex universe of historical assets, which from a legal scope covers - practically - from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. This paper summarizes the progress achieved to date and the challenges we might face in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Denia Berenice Villanueva Ruiz.

Archaeological research, such as other areas of knowledge, has used technology as a worthy work instrument. Therefore, in this paper, I do a review of the different instruments that have been developed, implemented and refined over the years to confront the need to know and appreciate cultural material with the final objective to control and preserve the national properties. Also, an objective is to present how the rules, agreements and other development normatives have been accomplished...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Blanca Paredes Gudino.

In the search for alternative ways for the protection of archaeological heritage, especially in Mexico, which has a vast heritage wealth; there is now an urgent need to raise specific protective tangibles in the immediate short term due to different factors that are contributing to their total loss, or the gradual deterioration of the archaeological wealth of our country. The main causes for this; population growth, limited budget, archaeological looting as well as many other factors. In this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Diana Gonzalez Omaña.

In September 2015, the second season of The Northern Basin of Mexico Sites Verification Project was made. During fieldwork, we had the chance of visit San Marcos Jilotzingo, a little town in the Mexican state of Mexico, and realize that the current village lay over the remains of prehispanic Xilotzingo, in which they share the same agricultural terraces, the tuff carved streets and building materials. But surprisingly there were no structures, since the current inhabitants of Jilotzingo...