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Leonardo Náuhmitl López Luján (born in Mexico City, 31 March 1964) is an archaeologist and one of the leading researchers of pre-Hispanic Central Mexican societies and the history of archaeology inMexico. He is director of the Templo Mayor Project in Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and

History (INAH) and son of renowned historian Alfredo López Austin.[1]

Contents

1 Education and Pr ofessional Life2 Research, Fieldwork and Museum exhibitions3 Awards and Fellowships4 Published Works

4.1 Books4.2 Edited Volumes and Catalogs

5 Notes6 References7 External links

Education and Professional Life

López Luján received his bachelor’s degree in archaeology from Mexico’s National School of

Anthropology and History (ENAH), which he attended from 1983 to 1987 as a student of EduardoMatos Moctezuma, who directed his thesis on the Offerings of the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan(1990). In 1992 he pursued doctoral studies at the University of Paris X-Nanterre as a student of Jean-Claude Gardin, Michel Graulich, and Alain Schnapp. His dissertation, “Anthropologie religieuse duTemplo Mayor, Mexico: La Maison des Aigles” (The Religious Anthropology of the Templo Mayor,Mexico: The House of Eagles), presented in 1998 under the direction of Pierre Becquelin, obtained the

highest honors.[2]

During his academic career he has been a visiting research fellow at Princeton University (1995), theMusée de l’Homme in Paris (2002), Harvard University's Dum barton Oaks (2006), and the Institut

d'Études Avancées from Paris (2013-2014),[3] and a visiting professor at the University of Paris IPanthéon-Sorbonne (2000), the University of Rome–La Sapienza (2004 and 2016), the École Pratique

des Hautes Études in Paris (2011), and Francisco Marroquín University in Guatemala (2011).[4]

In INAH, he has been a full-time research professor at the Templo Mayor Museum since 1988 and part-time teaching professor at the National School of Conservation, Restoration, and Museography

(ENCRYM) since 2000.[5]

From 2003 to 2005 he was president of the Mexican Society of Anthropology and from 1999 to 2017

member of the administration council of the Société des Américanistes. He is currently a Level IIIResearcher in Mexico’s National System of Researchers (SNI) and member of the Mexican Academy of

Sciences,[6] and the Mexican Academy of History.[7]

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and honorable mention in 1991).The Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2000).[18]

Social Sciences Research Award from the Mexican Academy of Sciences (2000).Dumbarton Oaks Research Fellowship, Harvard University (2005).[19]

Keynote Address at Convocation at the 2009 Annual Conference of the College Art Association(the only Latin American to receive this distinction in the association’s history).[20]

Senior Fellow, Pre-Columbian Studies, Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University (2012-2014).

Research Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Studies of Paris (2013-2014).[21]

Shanghai Archaeology Forum Research Award 2015, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (hisGreat Temple Project is considered one of the ten best archaeological programs of the world in2013-2015).[22]

Medal of Merit, Festival del Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México (2016).[23]

Distinguished Lectures at Harvard, Stanford,[24] Berkeley, Brown, the University of Missouri,Wellesley College,[25] Dumbarton Oaks, the British Museum,[26] the Musée du quai Branly,[27] theDe Young Museum, the San Antonio Museum of Art,[28] The Library of Congress,[29] and theGran Teatro Nacional del Perú.[30]

Published Works

Books

La recuperación mexica del pasado teotihuacano, 1989.(http://www.worldcat.org/title/recuperacion-mexico-del-pasado-teotihuacano/oclc/21792838)

Nómadas y sedentarios: el pasado prehispánico de Zacatecas, 1989.(http://www.worldcat.org/title/nomadas-y-sedentarios-el-pasado-prehispanico-de-zacatecas/oclc/22627606)

The Offerings of the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan, 1993, (http://www.worldcat.org/title/ofrendas-del-templo-mayor-de-tenochtitlan/oclc/30062905&referer=brief_results) 1994,(http://www.worldcat.org/title/offerings-of-the-templo-mayor-of-tenochtitlan/oclc/29563756)2005. (http://www.worldcat.org/title/offerings-of-the-templo-mayor-of-tenochtitlan/oclc/493693134)

Xochicalco y Tula, with Robert H. Cobean and Guadalupe Mastache, 1995,(http://www.worldcat.org/title/xochicalco-y-tula/oclc/489901782) 1996.(http://www.worldcat.org/title/xochicalco-e-tula-gli-altopiani-delle-guerre/oclc/635741402&referer=brief_results)

Mito y realidad de Zuyuá, with Alfredo López Austin, 1999. (http://www.worldcat.org/title/mito-

y-realidad-de-zuyua-serpiente-emplumada-y-las-transformaciones-mesoamericanas-del-clasico-al- posclasico/oclc/637072336)Viaje al mercado de México, 2000 (http://www.worldcat.org/title/historias-de-mexico-mexico-

precolombino/oclc/050139938), 2013. Mexico's Indigenous Past , with Alfredo López Austin, 1996,(http://www.worldcat.org/title/pasado-indigena/oclc/36407912&referer=brief_results) 1998,(http://www.worldcat.org/title/passato-indigeno-per-una-nuova-storia-del-messico-

precolombiano/oclc/760689462&referer=brief_results) 2001(http://www.worldcat.org/title/mexicos-indigenous-past/oclc/045879556), 2012(http://www.worldcat.org/title/le-passe-indigene-histoire-pre-coloniale-du-

mexique/oclc/807039958&referer=brief_results), 2014. Aztèques. La collection de sculptures du Musée du quai Branly, with Marie-France Fauvet-Berthelot, 2005. (http://www.worldcat.org/title/azteques-la-collection-de-sculptures-du-musee-du-quai-branly/oclc/419808596)

La Casa de las Águilas, 2 vols., 2006. (http://www.worldcat.org/title/casa-de-las-aguilas-un-

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ejemplo-de-la-arquitectura-religiosa-de-tenochtitlan/oclc/488690317)Tenochtitlan, with Judy Levin, 2006. (http://www.worldcat.org/title/tenochtitlan/oclc/143664023)

Breaking Through Mexico's Past , with Davíd Carrasco and Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, 2007,(http://www.worldcat.org/title/breaking-through-mexicos-past-digging-the-aztecs-with-eduardo-matos-moctezuma/oclc/475194221) 2007. (http://www.worldcat.org/title/rompimientos-del-centauro-conversaciones-con-eduardo-maros-moctezuma/oclc/427535552&referer=brief_results)

Escultura monumental mexica, with Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, 2009(http://www.worldcat.org/title/escultura-monumental-mexica/oclc/702551923), 2012.

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Monte Sagrado/Templo Mayor: el cerro y la pirámide en la tradición religiosa mesoamericana,with Alfredo López Austin, 2009 (http://www.worldcat.org/title/monte-sagrado-templo-mayor/oclc/657619356), 2012.Tlaltecuhtli, 2010. (http://www.worldcat.org/title/tlaltecuhtli/oclc/706071897)

El capitán Guillermo Dupaix y su álbum arqueológico de 1794, 2015.

Edited Volumes and Catalogs

Atlas histórico de Mesoamérica, with Linda Manzanilla, 1989.(http://www.worldcat.org/title/atlas-historico-de-mesoamerica/oclc/651213606)

Historia antigua de México, 4 vols., with Linda Manzanilla, 1994–1995,(http://www.worldcat.org/title/historia-antigua-de-mexico/oclc/032026134) 2000–2001(http://www.worldcat.org/title/historia-antigua-de-mexico/oclc/45478373), 2014.Camino al Mictlan, with Vida Mercado, 1997. (http://www.worldcat.org/title/camino-al-mictlan-museo-del-templo-mayor-10-anos/oclc/39207668)

La Casa de las Águilas: reconstrucción de un pasado, with Luis Barba, 2000.(http://www.worldcat.org/title/casa-de-las-aguilas-reconstruccion-de-un-pasado-exposicion-temporal-museo-del-templo-major-marzo-junio-de-2000/oclc/83371657)

Gli Aztechi tra passato e presente, with Alessandro Lupo and Luisa Migliorati, 2006.(http://www.worldcat.org/title/aztechi-tra-passato-e-presente-grandezza-e-vitalita-di-una-civilta-messicana/oclc/255702657)Sacrificios de consagración en la Pirámide de la Luna, with Saburo Sugiyama, 2006.(http://www.worldcat.org/title/sacrificios-de-consagracion-en-la-piramide-de-la-luna/oclc/228595390)

Arqueología e historia del Centro de México. Homenaje a Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, with DavídCarrasco and Lourdes Cué, 2006. (http://www.worldcat.org/title/arqueologia-e-historia-del-centro-de-mexico-homenaje-a-eduardo-matos-moctezuma/oclc/122937823)

Moctezuma: Aztec Ruler , with Colin McEwan, 2009, (http://www.worldcat.org/title/moctezuma-aztec-ruler/oclc/416257004) 2010. (http://www.worldcat.org/title/moctezuma-ii-tiempo-y-destino-de-un-gobernante/oclc/687686550&referer=brief_results)The Art of Urbanism: How Mesoamerican Kingdoms Represented Themselves in Architecture and

Imagery, with William L. Fash, 2009, (http://www.worldcat.org/title/art-of-urbanism-how-mesoamerican-kingdoms-represented-themselves-in-architecture-and-imagery/oclc/277086168)2012. (http://www.worldcat.org/title/art-of-urbanism-how-mesoamerican-kingdoms-represented-themselves-in-architecture-and-imagery/oclc/775028553?referer=br&ht=edition)

El sacrificio humano en la tradición religiosa mesoamericana, with Guilhem Olivier, 2010.(http://www.worldcat.org/title/sacrificio-humano-en-la-tradicion-religiosa-mesoamericana/oclc/667990552)

Humo aromático para los dioses: una ofrenda de sahumadores al pie del Templo Mayor de

Tenochtitlan, 2012 (http://www.worldcat.org/title/humo-aromatico-para-los-dioses-una-ofrenda-de-sahumadores-al-pie-del-templo-mayor-de-tenochtitlan-museo-del-templo-mayor-inah-abril-agosto-de-2012/oclc/808628697&referer=brief_results), 2014.

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Notes

1. http://www.acadmexhistoria.org.mx/sillon27.html2. http://www.acadmexhistoria.org.mx/sillon27.html; http://www.acadmexhistoria.org.mx/sillon27.pdf, pp. 1–2.3. "Institut d'études avancées de Paris". Paris-iea.fr. Retrieved 2012-11-07.4. pp. 6–9. (http://www.acadmexhistoria.org.mx/sillon27.pdf,)5. pp. 6–8. (http://www.acadmexhistoria.org.mx/sillon27.pdf,)6. "Academia Mexicana de Ciencias". Amc.unam.mx. Retrieved 2012-11-07.7. pp. 57, 60. (http://www.acadmexhistoria.org.mx/sillon27.pdf,)8. [1] (http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/directory/cor.cfm?member=24670.)9. [2] (http://www.sal.org.uk/history/listoffellows/?letter=L)

10. http://www.acadmexhistoria.org.mx/sillon27.html; http://www.acadmexhistoria.org.mx/sillon27.pdf, pp. 3–5.11. http://www.acadmexhistoria.org.mx/sillon27.html; http://www.acadmexhistoria.org.mx/sillon27.pdf, pp. 4–5.12. p. 58. (http://www.acadmexhistoria.org.mx/sillon27.pdf,)13. "The Aztec World | Exhibition Curators". Archive.fieldmuseum.org. Retrieved 2012-11-07.14. "Lectures talks and debates". British Museum. Retrieved 2012-11-07.15. [3] (http://www.inah.gob.mx/boletin/248-museos/7628-exhiben-album-de-dupaix-testimonio-de-los-origenes-

de-la-arqueologia-mexicana)16. http://www.acadmexhistoria.org.mx/sillon27.html; http://www.acadmexhistoria.org.mx/sillon27.pdf, p. 13.17. All of these awards, fellowships, and other distinctions in this section are documented in

http://www.acadmexhistoria.org.mx/sillon27.pdf, pp. 58–60.18. "Leonardo L贸 pez Luj谩n - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Gf.org. Retrieved 2012-11-07.19. "Awakening the Stones: The Beginnings of Pre-Columbian Archaeological Studies in Central Mexico —

Dumbarton Oaks". Doaks.org. Retrieved 2012-11-07.20. College Art Association. "CAA News | College Art Association » Blog Archive » Leonardo López Luján Is

Convocation Speaker | CAA". Collegeart.org. Retrieved 2012-11-07.21. [4] (http://www.paris-iea.fr/en/fellows/leonardo-lyepez-lujyan)22. [5] (http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2015/11/11/cultura/a07n1cul)23. [6] (http://festival.org.mx/site/wp-content/themes/centro_historico2016/assets/prensa/FCH/FCH_boletin.pdf)

24. Nguyen, Ivy (2010-05-21). "Dig into Mexico’s history draws Stanford crowd". Stanford Daily. Retrieved2012-11-07.25. "Bakwin Lecture | Wellesley College - Wellesley College". New.wellesley.edu. 2012-04-04. Retrieved

2012-11-07.26. "Mexicolore". Mexicolore. 2010-01-10. Retrieved 2012-11-07.27. "musée du quai Branly: conférences". Quaibranly.fr. Retrieved 2012-11-07.28. https://www.samuseum.org/event-detail/?e=964,29. http://www.loc.gov/celebration-of-mexico/schedule.html. Missing or empty |title= (help)30. http://www.cultura.gob.pe/es/comunicacion/noticia/ministerio-de-cultura-brindara-conferencia-sobre-los-

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References

Leonardo López Luján, Curriculum vitae(http://inah.academia.edu/LeonardoL%C3%B3pezLuj%C3%A1n)

External links

Leonardo López Luján, Mesoweb on-line publications(http://www.mesoweb.com/about/leonardo.html)

Works by Leonardo López Luján (http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n90-689208) in libraries(WorldCat catalog)Leonardo López Luján, "The Great Temple Project"(http://www.mesoweb.com/about/articles/Great_Temple_Project.pdf)Templo Mayor Museum, official site (http://www.gobiernodigital.inah.gob.mx/mener/index.php?

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id=32) (Spanish)

A.R. Williams, "Pyramid of Death", National Geographic Magazine, octubre de 2006(http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2006/10/mexico-pyramid/williams-text/1)Johanna Tuckman, "In Search of an Aztec King", American Archaeology, verano de 2008(http://www.collegeart.org/pdf/AmericanArchaeology.pdf)Robert Draper, "Greatest Aztec", National Geographic Magazine, noviembre de 2010(http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/11/greatest-aztec/draper-text)

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