Leonardo López Luján

Leonardo Náuhmitl López Luján (born March 31, 1964 in Mexico City ) is a Mexican archaeologist who researches the pre-Hispanic population of central Mexico and the history of the archeology of this country.

Life

López Luján, son of the historian Alfredo López Austin, studied from 1983 to 1990 at the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia in Mexico City, from 1992 to 1998 at the University of Paris X-Nanterre . Since 1991 he has been the director of the Templo Mayor project in Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH).

Publications

Books

• La recuperación mexica del pasado teotihuacano , Mexico 1989, ISBN 968-498-053-1 .
• Nómadas y sedentarios: el pasado prehispánico de Zacatecas , Mexico 1989, ISBN 968-6068-49-X .
• Las ofrendas del Templo Mayor de Tenochtitlan , Mexico 1993, ISBN 968-29-4530-5
• Xochicalco y Tula , with Robert H. Cobean and Guadalupe Mastache, 1995, 1996.
• El pasado indígena , with Alfredo López Austin, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2012, 2014.
• Mito y realidad de Zuyuá , with Alfredo López Austin, 1999.
• Viaje al mercado de México , 2000, 2013.
• Aztèques. La collection de sculptures du Musée du quai Branly , with Marie-France Fauvet-Berthelot, 2005.
• La Casa de las Águilas , 2 vols., 2006.
• Tenochtitlan , with Judy Levin, 2006.
• Breaking Through Mexico's Past , with Davíd Carrasco and Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, 2007, 2007.
• Escultura monumental mexica , with Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, 2009, 2012.
• Monte Sagrado / Templo Mayor: el cerro y la pirámide en la tradición religiosa mesoamericana , with Alfredo López Austin, 2009, 2012.
• Tlaltecuhtli , 2010.
• El capitán Guillermo Dupaix y su álbum arqueológico de 1794 , 2015.
• Arqueología de la arqueología: ensayos sobre los orígenes de la disciplina en México , 2017.
• Pretérito pluscuamperfecto: visiones mesoamericanas de los vestigios arqueológicos , 2019.

Edited volumes and catalogs

• Atlas histórico de Mesoamérica , with Linda Manzanilla, 1989.
• Historia antigua de México , 4 vols., With Linda Manzanilla, 1994–1995, 2000–2001, 2014.
• Camino al Mictlan , con Vida Mercado, 1997.
• La Casa de las Águilas: reconstrucción de un pasado , with Luis Barba, 2000.
• Gli Aztechi tra passato e presente , with Alessandro Lupo and Luisa Migliorati, 2006.
• Sacrificios de consagración en la Pirámide de la Luna , with Saburo Sugiyama, 2006.
• Arqueología e historia del Centro de México. Homenaje a Eduardo Matos Moctezuma , with Davíd Carrasco and Lourdes Cué, 2006.
• Moctezuma: Aztec Ruler , with Colin McEwan, 2009, 2010.
• The Art of Urbanism: How Mesoamerican Kingdoms Represented Themselves in Architecture and Imagery , with William L. Fash, 2009, 2012.
• El sacrificio humano en la tradición religiosa mesoamericana , with Guilhem Olivier, 2010.
• Humo aromático para los dioses: una ofrenda de sahumadores al pie del Templo Mayor de Tenochtitlan , 2012, 2014.
• El oro en Mesoamérica , Arqueología Mexicana , 2017.
• Nuestra sangre, nuestro color: la escultura polícroma de Tenochtitlan , 2017 ISBN 978-607484942-4 .
• Al pie del Templo Mayor de Tenochtitlan: estudios en honor de Eduardo Matos Moctezuma , 2 vols., With Ximena Chávez Balderas, 2019.

Awards and memberships

• 1985: Salvador Novo Fellowship at the Colegio de México
• 1991: Diario de México Medal, CONACYT, Best Student in Mexico
• 1991: Eugene M. Kayden Humanities Award, University of Colorado Boulder
• 1992, 1996, 2007: Best Article Award, Mexican Committee on History
• 1994: Excellent Academic Book, Choice Magazine
• 1998, 2016: Alfonso Caso Prize, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia
• 2000: Guggenheim grant
• 2000: Social Science Research Award , Mexican Academy of Sciences
• 2005–2006: Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks , Harvard University
• 2012–2014: Senior Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks , Harvard University
• 2013–2014: IEA Research Association, Institut d'études avancées de Paris
• 2015: Shanghai Archeology Forum Award 2015, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences .
• 2016: Medal at the Festival del Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México
• 2019: Medal Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Consejo Hidalguense de la Crónica and Gobierno del Estado de Hidalgo
• 2019: Crónica Prize in the Culture Category, La Crónica

Web links

• Leonardo López Luján, curriculum vitae
• Leonardo López Luján, online article
• Robert Draper: The Legacy of the Aztecs , article on National Geographic
• Johanna Tuckman: In Search of an Aztec King (PDF), American Archeology magazine (Summer 2008)
• AR Williams: Pyramid of Death article on National Geographic
• Leonardo López Luján: El Proyecto Templo Mayor (1991-2017)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.mesoweb.com/about/articles/Recuperacion-mexica.pdf
2. ↑ http://www.mesoweb.com/about/articles/Zacatecas.pdf
3. ↑ http://www.mesoweb.com/about/articles/Ofrendas.pdf
4. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , pp. 58-60. 
5. ^ John Simon Guggenheim Foundation - Leonardo López Luján. In: gf.org. Retrieved February 13, 2016 . 
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