La primera excavación arqueológica de América: Teotihuacan en 1675

Abstract

Contrary to what most historians of archaeology believe, it was not Thomas Jefferson who started archaeological research in the Americas. In 1875 in Mexico, Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora had done excavations in Teothihuacan. His works was a long tunnel in the piramid of the moon, as the result of a series of hypothesis that he had proposed. The tunnel itself later became subject of speculation, until it was covered at the beginning of this century.