The six sections of the volume contain articles related to western Mexico but also to the foundations of Mesoamerican archaeology. There are articles such as The other Mexico, the great Chichimeca; Architecture and archaeology; Complex systems in Mesoamerica; The emergence of complex societies; Restoration and archaeology; Archaeological practice and its social insertion; Archaeology and the community; Archaeology of Colima; Archaeology of central western Jalisco; Indigenous culture in the coast of Jalisco; Prehispanic Nayarit; The Aztatlán tradition; El Opeño; Archaeology of Michoacán; Guanajuato, Valle de Querétaro and El Tunal Grande; Archaeology of Bajío; Archaeology of Durango. In Spanish.

Published by Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (Mexico, D.F.), 2004. 555 pp. ISBN: 970-35-0297-0.

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