Revalue of paleontological cultural heritage in the face of community museology in Zóquite, Guadalupe, Zacatecas

Abstract

This paper focuses in the history and development of the “Proyecto de Rescate Paleontológico Puente de Calabacillas, Arroyo de Guerreros, Guadalupe” carried out in the mexican state of Zacatecas. The narrative starting point is the testimony of Pablo Chávez, an ejidatario (communal lands holder), who in 1991 discovers fragments of fossilized remains of a Columbi Mammoth from which a series of processes were performed: paleontological rescue as well as of cultural and educative nature. The structure of the paper was organizad in three sections: I) Interdisciplinary development of the proyecto de rescate paleontológico “Arroyo de Guerreros”; II) The Expo Mamut montage, and III) The continuous experimental educative products. The result of this process opens the discussion about the empty spaces that the current paleontological research has to deal with in Mexico at present times and, in opposite, the possibilities that can be based in the work with the organized communities along with museological interdisciplinary research when the problem of the cultural paleontological heritage is aborded.