Guanajuato, Gto., June 23, 2016.- From June 9th to 17th, Dr. José Luis Lara Valdés, scholar from the Deaprtment od History of the University of Guanajuato, gave a series of conferences about Guanajuato's archeology at Paris University, Pantheón Sorbonne and Paris 10 (Nanterre), in the framework of the Seminar of Archeology and Ethnology from Meso-America, from the Institut d'Art et d'Arqueologie, coordinated by Dr. Brigitte Faugère.

For the second time, Dr. Lara Valdés was invited to share the state of the matter of the archeology studies of Guanajuato and the center and north of Mexico, among historians, archeologists, ethnologists and students from related areas from different parts of Europe and Mexico that come to the renowned French university.

Under the motto of "New ancient history of Mexico based on the archeology of Guanajuato", Dr. Lara Valdés shared among the European researchers the results from his research, both documentaries and field, as well as his master degree's thesis "Guanajuato's Archeology" (UNAM) and his doctorate degree thesis "History and art in stones. Design of spirals in Central and Northern Mexico" (UG). Likewise, he divulged the "Historical Atlas of water in Guanajuato, since prehispanic times to our days", edited by the University of Guanajuato in 2010.

Dr. Lara was pleased by the broad interest and enthusiasm these subjects generated among the French colleagues: "we must recognize that France has been the country that, from the XIX century, has worked more to understand the prehispanic cultures of America, specially Mexico, from language, ethno history and archeology. They have discussed their previous authors and have found new explanations. A case is codicology, which in France has been greatly developed, and now is promoting a new way to understand the specialty in the codices; the same for the theory of landscape which in France is very alive; this is knowledge we can share and we have aa lot to contribute from the University of Guanajuato."

The Seminar or Archeology and Ethnology from Meso-America already has two decades of existence, initially promoted by Dr. Éric Taladoire, outstanding French archeologist who worked in Guanajuato in the salvage tasks of what today is "La Purísima" dam, and who also had the experience to have led in Mexico the Center of Mexican and Central American Studies (CEMCA), study center that operates under the sponsorship of the French Ministry of External Affairs. Dr. Lara Valdés was able to gather with the remarked French archeologist and exchange publications and observations on the transformation of the vision of archeology in the state of Guanajuato.

The visit from the University of Guanajuato's scholar to the Gallic country concluded with the documentary research of several files related with history and archeology of Mexico, located in the National Library of France.