Seminar “Talking Rocks: Recent Rock Art Research in Chihuahua” by Dr. Emiliano Gallaga Murrieta

Abstract:

Rock art is one of the most ancient human expression registered around the world. The individuals who make them wanted to leave a message for other to see or to send one to the special entities who commanded the natural forces. We probably will never know exactly what was the real intention of their makers, but we are certain that the places they chose to leave the rock art expression were special places for them and their communities. In this talk we will present the preliminary results from the archaeological research of two rock art sites, El Peñón del Diablo and the Cañada el Café at the desert state of Chihuahua, Mexico, where we registered more than 1000 rock art elements.

Bio:

EMILIANO GALLAGA MURRIETA. He is a graduate of the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH) in Archeology; he obtained the masters and doctorate degrees in Anthropology at The University of Arizona. He has worked in different archaeological sites, both national and international, in the states of Sonora, Chihuahua, State of Mexico, D.F., Yucatan, Chiapas, Arizona, New Mexico and Brazil. He has given more than one hundred lectures nationally and internationally. His publications add more than forty among articles, reviews, catalogs, biographical sketches and books. From the highlights of his collection we can mention the books:

-Surveying the Archaeology of Northwest México;

-¿Dónde están? Investigaciones de afromexicanos;

-A Landscape of Interactions during the Late Prehispanic Period in the Onavas Valley, Sonora, Mexico,

- Manufactured Light: Mirror in the Mesoamerican Realm.

and his most recent book : Chiapa de corzo: Origenes de una comunidad milenaria.

He served as a federal delegate at the INAH Chiapas Center from 2006 to 2013 and as a professor at the Faculty of Tourism Management of the National Autonomous University of Chiapas (UNACH) from 2009 to 2013. Archaeologist-researcher at the INAH Chihuahua Center in 2013, and director of the School of Anthropology and History of Northern Mexico (EAHNM), Chihuahua, and professor of the same from 2014 to 2019.