Lourdes Suarez Diez Books
Conchas y caracoles en las pictografias de la obra de fray Bernardino de Sahagun
Lourdes Suárez Diez is professor-researcher Emerita in the Ethnohistory Department of INAH and has been a pioneer in the investigation of the archaeological materials elaborated in shell, has devel...
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Conchas y caracoles
The book studies the artistic importance of the cut shell and mother of pearl objects in the Pre-Columbian Mexica culture, analyzing throughout colonial and conquest chronicles their artististic, s...
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La joyeria de concha de los dioses mexica
"Shell is a cultural marker that can have one or more functions within a society and is found in different archaeological contexts in Mesoamerica and Arid America. In addition, it is mentioned in w...
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Ecos del pasado
By Adrian Velazquez Castro, Lourdes Suarez Diez
"Los antiguos pobladores de México estimaban los moluscos no sólo como alimento, sino también como materia prima. Utilizaban las conchas o exoesqueletos para manufacturar objetos ornamentales: ropa...
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