Guanajuato, Gto., February 1, 2017.- Starting Friday February 10, at the venue Valenciana of the Division of Social Sciences and Humanities (DCSH) of Campus Guanajuato of the University of Guanajuato (UG), the course workshop "New Ancient History of Mexico based on Archeology of Guanajuato" under the conduction of Dr. José Luis Lara Valdés, Coordinator of the degree in History of the Department of History will begin.

In an interview, the scholar commented that at the beginning of the course is to access specialized knowledge to society in general, "we know that history and archeology are technical constructions and takes time to explain clearly the important events in the archeological past."

Dr. Lara refered that in the University of Guanajuato and particularly in the Department of history, there has been a participative investigation on the missing in the ancient history of Mexico, the prevailing ignorance that nothing important had happened in the actual territory of the state of Guanajuato, which has been gradually changed by the archeological work boosted by the government of the state of Guanajuato in the last 25 years.

Adding to that, he said, the contribution of the University of Guanajuato, where there has been publication or news from 1946 but was missing archeology, however, in the XXI century they have been opened to study and value of the cultural heritage, four site museums and archeological zones.

Archeology has outstood the search for knowledge that history tries to establish in geo-cultural contexts, said Dr. Lara, who observed that we are breaking paradigms that obstructed the understanding of processes for the social development happened in prehispanic times.

The course workshop "New Ancient History of Mexico based on Archeology of Guanajuato", will be coordinated by Dr. Lara Valdés, with support from other professors-researchers that will be incorporated; and is aimed for scholars of university disciplines that require this knowledge, as for the complementary formational activities; public interested in the topic and scholar from other regions in the country that try to address problems of analog knowledge to contents of this workshop.

The content, among others, relies on Mesoamerica confronted to places, monuments and archeological zones in the Center and North Mexico; seen from the formational or pre-classic from the Bajío, "the Chupícuaro culture"; seen from the Classic of Plazuelas, Barajas, Cerro de Chichimecas and Peralta: sculpture, urbanization and architecture; feedback based on geographical areas of Guanajuato: natural elements for cultural resources: the Prehispanic Bajío seen from the post-classic and historical, Arid America from Cañada de la Virgen and El Cóporo, geographical areas of Guanajuato and theoretic framework for archeology which will not be done: Dam La Purísima and hills of La Bufa.