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The Young Woman of Amajac, the Glossary

The Young Woman of Amajac (Spanish: La joven de Amajac, pronounced in Spanish) is a pre-Hispanic sculpture depicting an indigenous woman.^[1]

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2021 archaeological discoveries
2023 establishments in Mexico
Collections of the National Museum of Anthropology (Mexico)
Indigenous peoples in Mexico City
Indigenous sculpture of the Americas
Mesoamerican stone sculptures
Sculptures of women in Mexico City
Sculptures of women in Veracruz

Alejandra Frausto Guerrero

Alejandra Frausto Guerrero (born 25 March 1972) is a Mexican lawyer and cultural director.

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Amecameca

Amecameca is a municipality located in the eastern panhandle of Mexico State between Mexico City and the Iztaccíhuatl and Popocatépetl volcanos of the Sierra Nevada mountain range.

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Arqueología Mexicana (Mexican Archaeology) is a bimonthly journal published by Editorial Raíces and the Mexican Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (National Institute of Anthropology and History).

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Art intervention

Art intervention is an interaction with a previously existing artwork, audience, venue/space or situation.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Álamo, Veracruz

Álamo is a city in the Mexican state of Veracruz that serves as the seat of the surrounding municipality of Temapache.

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Basalt

Basalt is an aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron (mafic lava) exposed at or very near the surface of a rocky planet or moon.

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Chimalhuacán

Chimalhuacán (Nahuatl for "place of those who have shields") is a city and municipality located in the eastern part of State of Mexico, Mexico.

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Claudia Sheinbaum

Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo (born 24 June 1962) is a Mexican politician, scientist, and academic who is the president-elect of Mexico, the first woman to be elected to the position.

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Columbus Day

Columbus Day is a national holiday in many countries of the Americas and elsewhere, and a federal holiday in the United States, which officially celebrates the anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas.

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Common Era

Common Era (CE) and Before the Common Era (BCE) are year notations for the Gregorian calendar (and its predecessor, the Julian calendar), the world's most widely used calendar era.

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Decolonization

independence. Decolonization is the undoing of colonialism, the latter being the process whereby imperial nations establish and dominate foreign territories, often overseas.

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Deutsche Welle

("German Wave"), commonly shortened to DW, is a German public, state-owned international broadcaster funded by the German federal tax budget.

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El Economista (Mexico)

El Economista is a Mexican business and economics newspaper.

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El Heraldo de México

El Heraldo de México is a Mexican national daily newspaper published in Mexico City.

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El País

() is a Spanish-language daily newspaper in Spain.

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El Universal (Mexico City)

El Universal is a Mexican newspaper based in Mexico City.

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Expansión (Mexico)

is a Spanish-language news magazine targeted to business markets in Mexico and Latin America created in 1969 and redesigned in 1999.

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Glorieta de las mujeres que luchan

On the afternoon of 25 September 2021, a group of anonymous feminists intervened in the Christopher Columbus roundabout on Paseo de la Reforma Avenue, Mexico City. The Young Woman of Amajac and Glorieta de las mujeres que luchan are sculptures of women in Mexico City.

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Goethe-Institut

The Goethe-Institut (GI, Goethe Institute) is a non-profit German cultural association operational worldwide with 159 institutes, promoting the study of the German language abroad and encouraging international cultural exchange and relations.

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Huastec civilization

The Huastec civilization (sometimes spelled Huaxtec or Wastek) was a pre-Columbian civilization of Mesoamerica, occupying a territory on the Gulf coast of Mexico that included the northern portion of Veracruz state, and neighbouring regions of the states of Hidalgo, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, and Tamaulipas.

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Huasteca

La Huasteca is a geographical and cultural region located partially along the Gulf of Mexico and including parts of the states of Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Puebla, Hidalgo, San Luis Potosí, Querétaro and Guanajuato.

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Indigenismo in Mexico

Indigenismo is a Latin American nationalist political ideology that began in the late nineteenth century and persisted throughout the twentieth that attempted to construct the role of indigenous populations in the nation-state.

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Indigenous peoples of Mexico

Indigenous peoples of Mexico (gente indígena de México, pueblos indígenas de México), Native Mexicans (nativos mexicanos) or Mexican Native Americans (lit), are those who are part of communities that trace their roots back to populations and communities that existed in what is now Mexico before the arrival of Europeans.

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Infobae

Infobae is an international Argentine online newspaper.

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Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia

The Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH, National Institute of Anthropology and History) is a Mexican federal government bureau established in 1939 to guarantee the research, preservation, protection, and promotion of the prehistoric, archaeological, anthropological, historical, and paleontological heritage of Mexico.

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La Crónica de Hoy

La Crónica de Hoy is a Mexican newspaper published in Mexico City.

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La Jornada

La Jornada (The Working Day) is one of Mexico City's leading daily newspapers.

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Limestone

Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.

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Live Science

Live Science is a science news website.

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Martí Batres

Martí Batres Guadarrama (born 26 January 1967) is a Mexican politician who is the interim head of government of Mexico City following Claudia Sheinbaum's departure from the office to run for President of Mexico.

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Mesoamerican chronology

Mesoamerican chronology divides the history of prehispanic Mesoamerica into several periods: the Paleo-Indian (first human habitation until 3500 BCE); the Archaic (before 2600 BCE), the Preclassic or Formative (2500 BCE – 250 CE), the Classic (250–900 CE), and the Postclassic; as well as the post European contact Colonial Period (1521–1821), and Postcolonial, or the period after independence from Spain (1821–present).

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Mexico City

Mexico City (Ciudad de México,; abbr.: CDMX; Central Nahuatl:,; Otomi) is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America.

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Mexico City Metrobús

The Mexico City Metrobús (former official name Sistema de Corredores de Transporte Público de Pasajeros del Distrito Federal), simply known as Metrobús, is a bus rapid transit (BRT) system that has served Mexico City since line 1 opened on 19 June 2005.

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Mexico City Metrobús Line 4

The Mexico City Metrobús Line 4 is a bus rapid transit line in the Mexico City Metrobus.

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Mexico City Metrobús Line 7

The Mexico City Metrobús Line 7 is a bus rapid transit line in the Mexico City Metrobús.

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Milenio

Milenio is a major national newspaper in Mexico, owned by Grupo Multimedios.

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Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education

Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM; Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education), also known as Tecnológico de Monterrey or just Tec, is a private research university based in Monterrey, Mexico, which has grown to include 35 campuses throughout the country.

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Monument to Christopher Columbus (Charles Cordier)

The Monument to Christopher Columbus (Spanish: Monumento a Colón) is a statue by French sculptor Charles Cordier first dedicated in 1877.

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Museo Nacional del Virreinato

The Museo Nacional del Virreinato (in Spanish, National Museum of the Viceroyalty of New Spain) is located in the former College of San Francisco Javier in Tepotzotlán, Mexico State, Mexico.

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National Museum of Anthropology (Mexico)

The National Museum of Anthropology (Museo Nacional de Antropología, MNA) is a national museum of Mexico.

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Neoclassical architecture

Neoclassical architecture, sometimes referred to as Classical Revival architecture, is an architectural style produced by the Neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century in Italy, France and Germany.

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Olmec colossal heads

The Olmec colossal heads are stone representations of human heads sculpted from large basalt boulders. The Young Woman of Amajac and Olmec colossal heads are indigenous sculpture of the Americas and Mesoamerican stone sculptures.

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Organización Editorial Mexicana

Organización Editorial Mexicana, also known as OEM, is the largest Mexican print media company and the largest newspaper company in Latin America.

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Paseo de la Reforma

Paseo de la Reforma (literally "Promenade of the Reform") is a wide avenue that runs diagonally across the heart of Mexico City.

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Pedro Reyes (artist)

Pedro Reyes (born 1972) is a Mexican artist.

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Pre-Columbian era

In the history of the Americas, the pre-Columbian era, also known as the pre-contact era, spans from the original peopling of the Americas in the Upper Paleolithic to European colonization, which began with Christopher Columbus's voyage of 1492.

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Proceso (magazine)

Proceso (Process) is a left-wing Mexican news magazine published in Mexico City.

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Secretariat of Culture

The Secretariat of Culture (Secretaría de Cultura), formerly known as the National Council for Culture and Arts (Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes or CONACULTA), is a Mexican government agency in charge of the nation's museums and monuments, promoting and protecting the arts (visual, plastic, theatrical, musical, dance, architectural, literary, televisual and cinematographic), and managing the national archives.

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Temapache

Álamo Temapache (or simply Temapache) is a municipality in the Mexican state of Veracruz.

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Tepotzotlán

Tepotzotlán is a city and a municipality in the Mexican state of Mexico.

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The Arts Fuse

The Arts Fuse is an online arts magazine covering cultural events in Greater Boston, as well as Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, and New York.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Tlalli

Tlalli (land) was a proposed sculpture of a large indigenous woman's head by contemporary artist Pedro Reyes. The Young Woman of Amajac and Tlalli are indigenous peoples in Mexico City and sculptures of women in Mexico City.

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Tlazōlteōtl

In Aztec mythology, Tlahzōlteōtl (or Tlâçolteotl) is a deity of sexuality, vice, purification, steam baths, lust, filth, and a patroness of adulterers.

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Traffic island

A traffic island is a solid or painted object in a road that channels traffic.

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Tuxpan River (Veracruz)

The Tuxpan River in Mexico flows into the Gulf of Mexico near the city and port of Tuxpan (Tuxpan de Rodríguez Cano) in the state of Veracruz.

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Veracruz

Veracruz, formally Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave, officially the Estado Libre y Soberano de Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave (Free and Sovereign State of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Young_Woman_of_Amajac

Also known as La Joven de Amajac, Young Woman of Amajac.

, Tepotzotlán, The Arts Fuse, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Tlalli, Tlazōlteōtl, Traffic island, Tuxpan River (Veracruz), Veracruz, Violence against women in Mexico, Volcanic rock, 2021 in archaeology.

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See also

2021 archaeological discoveries

2023 establishments in Mexico

Collections of the National Museum of Anthropology (Mexico)

Indigenous peoples in Mexico City

Indigenous sculpture of the Americas

Mesoamerican stone sculptures

Sculptures of women in Mexico City

Sculptures of women in Veracruz

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