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Informationen zum Autor Maria Teresa Munoz Espinosa is an archaeologist. She studied at the Escuela Nacional de Antropologia e Historia (Degree in Archaeology) and at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (Master in History of the Art and Doctorate in Meso-American Studies). Professor-Researcher Full Time: Direccion de Estudios Arqueologicos del INAH. Head of the Project Archaeological North of the State of Queretaro, Mexico, from 1990. This project had financing of CONACyT (2003-2006). Investigation periods in the Universities of Texas in Austin and California in Berkeley, U.S. She has published diverse works around their investigation area, among them her books Cultura e historia de la Sierra Gorda de Queretaro, Mexico (2007) published by CONACyT and the editorial Plaza y Valdes, and "Los animales ensenaron el camino..." La fauna de la Sierra Gorda queretana a traves de sus representaciones ceramicas arqueologicas (2021), published by Archaeopress. Klappentext This book proposes an interpretation of the iconographic elements and an iconological analysis of the Huastec sculpture of the so-called "Adolescente de Jalpan", which seems to be related to the iconography and iconology associated with the god Quetzalcoatl and his twin brother, Xolotl.
