ethnohistorical and ethnological investigations (Marquina 1970). The recent excavation of the Templo Mayor and other structures on Tenochtitlán’s main plaza (López Luján 1993; Matos Moctezuma 1982) received a large amount of financial support from the government and generated great interest among the Mexican public. This program has resulted in a major new museum and research center for Aztec studies and an important series of publications.

There are many other projects investigating monumental centers such as Teotenango, Xochicalco, Uxmal, Yaxchilan, Palenque, bonampak’, Pomona, Tonina, Chichén Itzá, El Tajin, Cacaxtla, Monte Albán, and La Quemada. Some of these projects are limited to the excavation and conservation of monumental architecture while others combine those activities with more extensive investigations that delimit the total settlement and study specific areas outside the monumental zone.

More than 100 archaeological zones in Mexico are open to the public, and tens of thousands of other sites have been identified in surveys or other investigations. There is growing debate among archaeologists concerning priorities for the investigation and conservation of this ancient cultural patrimony. With the growth of modern Mexico, and especially with the expansion of numerous towns and cities and the common use of mechanized agriculture, many archaeological sites are in danger of being destroyed. Nearly all future archaeology in Mexico will in some sense be salvage archaeology.

In recent decades a number of major syntheses and new journals dedicated partially or entirely to Mesoamerican archaeology have been published. Some of the most influential of these include Handbook of Middle American Indians (Bricker and Sabloff 1981; Wauchope 1964– 1971); Mexico: Panorama histórico y cultural (1974– 1976) and La antropología en Mexico: Panorama histórico (García Mora et al. 1987–1989), both published by the National Institute of Anthropology and History; and the journals Latin American Antiquity, Ancient Mesoamerica, Arqueologia (INAH), and Arqueologia Mexicana.

Robert H. Cobean and

Alba Guadalupe Mastache Flores

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