Alejandro Peschard Fernández is a Mexican archaeologist, writer, and doctor from

Durango Durango (), officially named Estado Libre y Soberano de Durango ( en, Free and Sovereign State of Durango; Tepehuán: ''Korian''; Nahuatl: ''Tepēhuahcān''), is one of the 31 states which make up the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico, situated in ...

. He has written several monographs on the history of the indigenous peoples of Northern Mexico, and in 1998, he founded the Museo de Arqueología Ganot-Peschard with his colleague Jaime Ganot Rodríguez. The museum's collection primarily consists of archeological evidence collected by Peschard and Ganot over the course of 30 years of research in Zacatecas,

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, Nayarit, and

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Ganot-Peschard Museum of Archaeology

The Ganot-Peschard Museum of Archaeology is located in Zona Centro of

. It is housed in a historic building, which at various points held a printing press and the Durango state archives. Operating since 1998, the museum has been recognized by the

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as a culturally significant landmark. Oriented toward preserving the archeological heritage of Northern Mexico, Peschard has served as the director of the museum since its founding.

Archeological Work

Much of Peschard's work has focused on indigenous

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and practices in Northern Mexico. His work on Tepehuan solar alignments in ceremonial sites in

was noted in the 2008 text, ''Archaeology without Borders'':

Not far from the
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in
Durango Durango (), officially named Estado Libre y Soberano de Durango ( en, Free and Sovereign State of Durango; Tepehuán: ''Korian''; Nahuatl: ''Tepēhuahcān''), is one of the 31 states which make up the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico, situated in ...
is the small town of El Zape. Here is found a shelter with high, vertical walls where some type of solar ritual was held. Jaime Ganot Rodríguez and Alejandro Peschard Fernández... have studied this ceremonial site and identified a solar alignment on the spring equinox.

Published Works

*''Las Poblaciones Indígenas de Durango a Través de la Historia en Busca de la Identidad Regional de Durango'' (Gobierno del Estado de Durango, Secretaría de Educación, Cultura y Deporte, 2000), *''Aztatlán: Apuntes para la Historia y Arqueología de Durango'' (Gobierno del Estado de Durango, Secretaría de Educación, Cultura y Deporte, 1997), *"Cosmic ideograms on petroglyphs of the Mesoamerican cultures of 'El Zape' region in Durango, Mexico" in ''World Archaeoastronomy'' (Cambridge University Press, 1989),

References

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