| Date | Text | |
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30 Nov 1970
Alfonso Caso y Andrade |
death Alfonso Caso y Andrade Died 30 Nov 1970 at age 74 (born 1 Feb 1896). Mexican archaeologist and government official who explored the early Oaxacan cultures and is best remembered for his excavation of Tomb Seven at Monte Albán, the earliest-known North American necropolis. His first book, El mapa de Teozacoalco, (1949), is a key to Mixtec history. For 40 years, he studied prehispanic writing, striving to decipher the forgotten inscriptions. His most famous work, Kings and Kingdoms of the Mixteca, was finished only a few days before he died in 1970. |
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