ʻO ia ka makahiki 1931 a ke ʻike nei ʻo Mekiko i nā manawa nui. Ua pau ka hana ʻino a ke kipi a ua hauʻoli ka ʻāina i ka hanohano honua no ka manawa mua, kahi huahana o ka piʻi ʻana o ka ʻepekema a me nā hana akamai.
ʻO ke au ia o ke ala hao, o ka lekiō uia, ʻo nā kīʻaha kīʻaha a me nā wahine koa i koi i kahi kaulike kaulike me nā kāne. I kēlā manawa ua ola ʻo Don Alfonso Caso.
Mai ka makahiki 1928, ua hele mai ʻo Don Alfonso, he loio a he archaeologist, i Oaxaca, mai Mexico City, e ʻimi ana i kekahi mau pane i kāna hopohopo ʻepekema. Ua makemake au e ʻike i ke kumu o ka lāhui ʻōiwi o kēia wahi. Makemake ʻo ia e ʻike i nā hale nui i hiki ke koho ʻia ma nā puʻu i ʻike ʻia ʻo Monte Albán a no hea lākou.
E hana i kēia, ua hoʻolālā ʻo Don Alfonso i kahi papahana archaeological i komo mua i ka hana ʻana i nā ʻeli ʻana ma ka Great Plaza a me nā mogotes i hoʻopuni iā ia; e 1931 ka manawa e hoʻokō ai i kēlā mau hana hoʻolālā lōʻihi. Ua hōʻuluʻulu ʻo Caso i kekahi mau hoa hana a me nā haumāna, a me kāna mau kālā ponoʻī a me kekahi mau makana i hoʻomaka ʻo ia e ʻimi iā Monte Albán. Hoʻomaka nā hana ma ka North Platform, ka mea nui a kiʻekiʻe loa i ke kūlanakauhale nui; mua ka alapii waena a mai ia manawa e pane ka ʻeli ʻana i nā pono o nā mea i loaʻa a me ka hoʻolālā. E like me ka laki, ma ka lā 9 o Ianuali o kēlā kau mua, ua kāhea ʻia ʻo Don Juan Valenzuela, ko Caso kōkua, e nā poʻe mahiʻai e nānā i kahi māla kahi i piholo ai ka palau. I ke komo ʻana i ka luawai a kekahi poʻe limahana i hoʻomaʻemaʻe ai, ua ʻike lākou ke alo nei lākou i kahi ʻike kupaianaha maoli. I ke kakahiaka hoʻoilo anuanu, ua loaʻa kahi waiwai i kahi hale kupapaʻu ma Monte Alban.
ʻO ka hale kupapaʻu he kanaka koʻikoʻi ia, e like me nā mōhai nani i hōʻike ʻia; ua kapa ʻia ka inoa me ka helu 7 e like me ke kūlike me ia i ke kaʻina o nā lua kupapaʻu i ʻeli ʻia a hiki i kēia manawa. Ua ʻike ʻia ʻo Tomb 7 ma ke ʻano he mea kupaianaha loa i loaʻa ma Latin America i kona manawa.
ʻO nā ʻike i loko o kekahi mau iwi o nā ʻano hanohano, a me ko lākou mau lole momona a me nā mea o nā mōhai, i ʻoi aku ma mua o ʻelua haneli, a ʻo ia hoʻi nā lei, nā peʻe pepeiao, nā apo pepeiao, nā apo, nā lopa, nā tiara a me nā ʻohe, ka hapa nui. Hana ʻia i nā mea waiwai a pinepine mai nā wahi ma waho o nā awāwa ʻo Oaxaca. Ma waena o nā mea i kū i waho ke gula, ke kālā, ke keleawe, ka obsidian, ka turquoise, ke aniani pōhaku, nā pōhaku, ka iwi a me nā keramika, ua hana nā mea āpau me ka haku hana noʻeau a me nā ʻano hana lahilahi ʻē aʻe, e like me ka filigree a i wili ʻia a hoʻopaʻa ʻia nā kaula gula i nā kiʻi. kupaianaha, kahi mea i ʻike ʻole ʻia ma Mesoamerica.
Ua hōʻike ʻia nā noiʻi ua hoʻohana hou ʻia ka hale kupapaʻu e nā Zapotecs o Monte Albán, akā ʻo ka mōhai waiwai loa i kūlike i ke kanu ʻana o ʻekolu mau mea Mixtec i make ma ke awāwa ʻo Oaxaca ma kahi o 1200 AD.
Ma hope o ka loaʻa ʻana o Tomb 7, loaʻa iā Alfonso Caso ka hanohano nui a me kēia i loaʻa ai nā manawa kūpono e hoʻomaikaʻi ai i kāna moʻohelu kālā a hoʻomau i nā mākaʻikaʻi nui āna i hoʻolālā ai, akā me nā nīnau e pili ana i ka ʻoiaʻiʻo o ka loaʻa. . Waiwai loa a nani ia i manaʻo ai kekahi poʻe he moemoeā ia.
ʻO ka loaʻa ʻana o ka Great Plaza i hana ʻia i loko o nā kau he ʻumikūmāwalu i mau ai kāna hana kahua, i kākoʻo ʻia e kahi hui ʻoihana i haku ʻia e nā archeologists, nā mea kākau hale a me nā anthropologists kino. Aia ma waena o kēia mau mea ʻo Ignacio Bernal, Jorge Acosta, Juan Valenzuela, Daniel Rubín de la Borbolla, Eulalia Guzmán, Ignacio Marquina a me Martín Bazán, a ʻo ka wahine hoʻi a Caso, ʻo Mrs. María Lombardo, ʻo lākou a pau nā mea hana keaka kaulana i ka moʻolelo o ka archeology o Oaxaca.
Ua ʻimi ʻia kēlā me kēia hale e nā luina o nā limahana mai Xoxocotlán, Arrazola, Mexicapam, Atzompa, Ixtlahuaca, San Juan Chapultepec a me nā kauhale ʻē aʻe, i kauoha ʻia e kekahi o nā lālā o ka hui ʻepekema. Ua hoʻokaʻawale pono ʻia nā mea i loaʻa, e like me nā pōhaku kūkulu, keramika, iwi, pūpū a me nā mea obsidianed e lawe ʻia i ka hale hana, no ka mea e nānā lākou i nā lā kūkulu a me ke ʻano o nā hale.
ʻO ka hana nui o ka papa ʻana, kālailai ʻana, a me ka wehewehe ʻana i nā mea i lawe ʻia i ka hui Caso i mau makahiki he nui; ʻaʻole i paʻi ʻia ka puke ma ka Monte Albán ceramics a hiki i ka 1967, a me ke aʻo ʻana o Tomb 7 (El Tesoro de Monte Albán), kanakolu mau makahiki ma hope o kona ʻike ʻia. Hōʻike kēia iā mākou he hana nui kā ka archeology o Monte Albán e hana nei.
He kanalua paha nā hana a Caso. Ma o kā lākou wehewehe ʻana ʻike mākou i kēia lā ua hoʻomaka ke kūkulu ʻia ke kūlanakauhale ʻo Monte Albán 500 mau makahiki ma mua o Kristo a he ʻelima paha mau manawa o ke kūkulu ʻana, kahi a nā archaeologists i kēia lā e hoʻomau nei e kāhea i nā epochs I, II, III, IV a me V.
Me ka ʻimi noiʻi, kūkulu ka hana nui ʻē aʻe i nā hale e hōʻike i ko lākou nui a pau. Ua hoʻolaʻa ʻo Don Alfonso Caso lāua ʻo Don Jorge Acosta i nā hana he nui a me ka nui o nā limahana e kūkulu hou i nā paia o nā luakini, nā hale aliʻi a me nā hale kupapaʻu, a hāʻawi iā lākou i ka hiʻona i mālama ʻia a hiki i kēia lā.
No ka hoʻomaopopo piha ʻana i ke kūlanakauhale a me nā hale, ua lawe lākou i kahi moʻo o nā kiʻi paʻi kiʻi, mai nā hoʻolālā topographic kahi e heluhelu ai i nā ʻano o nā puʻu a me nā ʻāina, a hiki i nā kaha kiʻi o nā contour o kēlā me kēia hale a me kona alo. Pēlā nō, akahele loa lākou e kaha i nā substructure āpau, ʻo ia hoʻi, nā hale o nā manawa ma mua i loko o nā hale a mākou e ʻike nei.
Ua hoʻokau ʻia ka hui o Caso me ke kūkulu ʻana i kahi ʻoihana liʻiliʻi e hiki ai i ka pūnaewele a ola i kēlā me kēia pule ma waena o ka honua i eli ʻia, nā mea archaeological, a me nā kanu kupapaʻu. Ua hoʻomoe ʻia ka poʻe hana a kūkulu i ke ala komo mua e hoʻohana mau ʻia nei a hiki i kēia lā, a me kekahi mau hale liʻiliʻi i lawelawe i kahi hoʻomoana i nā wā hana; Pono lākou e hoʻoponopono i kā lākou hale kūʻai wai a halihali i kā lākou meaʻai. ʻO ia, me ke kānalua ʻole, ka wā aloha nui o ka archeology Mekiko.
