The “Catálogo de Lugares Sagrados del Gran Nayar”: A Challenge for Mexican Archaeology

"In what ways do Indigenous categories and practices challenge archaeological science? Many ancient materials and sites associated with Mexico’s Indigenous peoples form part of the subject matter of archaeology and are also ancestral and sacred places of a sensitive nature. However, despite this overlap, archaeological sites and sacred places are not interchangeable categories. This article presents the results of the collaborative project “Catálogo de Lugares Sagrados del Gran Nayar” in Western Mexico, highlighting how Indigenous practices relating to these places resist academic classification and challenge archaeological understandings of monumentality, temporality, and aesthetics."

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