- Ignacio Bernal
Ignacio Bernal (February 13, 1910 in
Paris - November 24, 1992 inMexico City ) was an eminentMexican anthropologist andarchaeologist .Bernal excavated much of
Monte Albán , originally starting as a student ofAlfonso Caso , and later led major archeological projects atTeotihuacan . In 1965 he excavatedDainzú . [ [http://www.inah.gob.mx/ZonasArqueologicas/todas/htme/za01711.html# Dainzú at INAH (in Spanish)] ] He was the director of Mexico’sNational Museum of Anthropology 1962-68 and again 1970-77. He was awarded the Premio Nacional in 1969. He was a founding member of theThird World Academy of Sciences in 1983.Books
Bernal's many publications include:
* "The Olmec world". Berkeley, University of California Press. (1969)
* "A history of Mexican archaeology: the vanished civilizations of Middle America" (1980). London, Thames and Hudson. ISBN 0500780080 and
* Paddock, J., & Bernal, I. (1966). "Ancient Oaxaca; discoveries in Mexican archeology and history". Stanford, Calif, Stanford University Press.Notes
External links
* [http://www.colegionacional.org.mx/Bernal.htm Bio details, Colegio Nacional] - in Spanish
* [http://www.udlap.mx/vidaestudiantil/colegios/bernal/historia.htm#IB Bio details, Colegio Ignacio Bernal] - in Spanish
* [http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/abcde/bernal_ignacio.html Bio details, Minnesota State University]
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