Gérald Migeon
I am french archaeologist making investigations in Mesoamerica and French Guyana and working in the Service archéologique of Aquitaine (Bordeaux) in France
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The Michoacán project (1983-1987) «had for purpose the realization of a study of all the perceptible demonstrations of the prehispanic occupations in the region» (Michelet and alii, on 1992: 17-18).
After the first three field’s seasons of the year 1983, dedicated essentially to survey and to test pits, we directed all our efforts to the resolution of more specific objectives, the main thing being the study of the settlement patterns of the very numerous postclassical sites of the south region of the Project, located in the tarascan Sierra and Malpaís of Zacapu.
The excavations directly connected to this subject were made in 1984 and 1985, but various tests and surveys realized between 1983 and 1986 brought data very useful for our study.
The author has presented a doctoral thesis sustained in January, 1991, in Paris I, on “The sites and residential and civic-ceremonial structures of the region of Zacapu, during the Postclassic ». This thesis has constituted the first synthesis in French on this subject.
As a consequence of the criticisms emitted during the defense of this thesis, and insufficient data concerning the early postclassic occupation of the region of Zacapu, was set up the Michoacán III (1993-1996) project. Both main purposes of this Project were the study of the transition between the Palacio phase (900-1200) and the Milpillas phase (1200-1450) as well as the systematic recording of sites and various structures of these sites localized in Malpaís of Zacapu and dated from the phase Milpillas.
This publication will present mainly the results of the excavations of the places of residence of
the group B of the site of Milpillas, excavations of ethnographical type allowing inferences on
the activities of the ancient inhabitants of places.
The settlement patterns of the region of Zacapu and particularly the fast development in the malpaís of Zacapu of sites spread at the beginning of Postclassic recent will be the object of another publication, entitled « El Malpaís de Zacapu y sus alrededores en el Posclásico » (Malpaís of Zacapu and its surroundings in the Postclassic «), in the BAR series.
Both publications are complementary, this first one presents the vision intra-site, by district and place of residence, the second is a regional approach of the settlement patterns of this region of the protohistoric tarascan empire.
The Michoacán project (1983-1987) «aimed at the realization of a study of all the perceptible demonstrations of the prehispanic occupations in the region» (Michelet et alii, on 1992: 17-18).
After the first three field’s seasons of the year 1983, dedicated essentially to survey and test pits, we directed all our efforts to the resolution of more specific objectives, the main thing being the settlement patterns study of the very numerous postclassical sites of the south region of the Project, located in the Tarascan Sierra and Malpais of Zacapu.
The excavations directly connected to this subject were made in 1984 and 1985, but various test pits and surveys realized between 1983 and 1986 brought very useful data for our study.
The author presented a doctoral thesis sustained in January, 1991, in Paris I University on “The sites and residential and civic-ceremonial structures of the region of Zacapu, during the Postclassic” This thesis constituted the first synthesis in French on this subject.
As a consequence of the criticisms emitted during the defence of this thesis, and insufficient data concerning the Early Postclassic occupation of the Zacapu Region, was set up the Michoacán III (1993-1996) project. Both main purposes of this Project were the study of the transition between the Palacio phase (900-1200) and the Milpillas phase (1200-1450) as well as the systematic recording of sites and various structures of these sites localized in the Zacapu Malpais and dated from the phase Milpillas.
This publication will present mainly the results of the surveys, surface collections and test-pits and allowing inferences on the settlement patterns of the region of Zacapu and particularly the rapid growth in the Malpais of Zacapu of sites spread at the beginning of Postclassic.
A recent publication entitled Residencias y estructuras cívico-ceremoniales posclásicas tarascas de la región de Zacapu (Residences and Tarascan postclassic civic and ceremonial structures of the region of Zacapu) has been published in 2015 in the BAR international series.
Both publications are complementary; the first one has presented the vision intra-site, by district and place of residence, the second is a regional approach of the settlement patterns from this region of the protohistoric Tarascan Empire.
En segundo lugar, estudiaremos la naturaleza, el origen, la función y el simbolismo de los productos encontrados durante las excavaciones, artefactos ajenos a la zona colindante al cerro, a la región suroeste del estado de Guanajuato o al Bajío, para tratar de entender las relaciones que tejieron los pueblos del Cerro Barajas con otros grupos humanos de Mesoamérica.
Concluiremos exponiendo unas hipótesis sobre el ocaso de este conjunto de pueblos antiguos a partir del siglo IX.