La escultura en piedra de la ciudad arqueológica de Cantona, Puebla

"This book is the outcome of the results of the subproject "Análisis estilístico e iconográfico de la escultura de Cantona, Puebla" (stylistic and iconographic analysis of the sculpture of Cantona, Puebla), and their relationships in time and space, derived from the Proyecto Arqueológico Cantona, coordinated by director Ángel García Cook. The analysis of the sculpture, entrusted to who writes this, began in August 2000, and intermittently has continued to date. The dynamic has been slow because on several occasions, it was necessary to interrupt the analysis of the sculpture to resolve two prior methodological problems of strong epistemological content: on the one hand, the definition of the concepts re style, type, nature, sign, that would allow the gentrification of the characteristics of the Cantonese sculpture; on the other hand, the construction, with all the scientific rigor possible of a method and at the same time, a model of taxonomic classification, allowing the objective systematization of the information contained in each sculpture." (HKB Translation) --Page 13. The Acropolis of Cantona is the first book that explains the development process of the urban structure of one of the largest and most complex prehispanic cities of northeastern region of the Central Altiplano of Mexico, from the first evidence of settelments to its abandonment, taking as an example the most important civic-religious center of the city. For this, the author analyzes the urban-architectonic characteristics as well as the natural environment, from which derive the production of food, litica and ceramic artifacts, and compares them with those of other contemporary societies, mainly from the Bajío region, to build interesting hypotheses about the ethnico-cultural identity of the inhabitants and builders of Cantona, in the state of Puebla, Mexico. After more than ten centuries of the abandonment of this great metropolis (and 30 years of its uninterrupted exploration) this work leads us to understand it as the tacit and highly emblematic demonstration of the indomitable spirit of the inhabitants of one of the most aggressive and reluctant natural spaces, transforming it into extraordinary cultural center and one of the most representative Prehispanic sites of Mesoamerica.