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Aztlanahuac-Mesoamerica in North America Map Exhibit

Wednesday, April 14th to Wednesday, June 30, 2004

at Charles E. Young Research Library (YRL)

ARTICLE-The Story of Maps: Mesoamerica in North America

By Roberto Rodriguez & Patrisia Gonzales

On April 14, the UCLA Young Research Library will be the site of a special and historic exhibit of 19th-16th century maps that indicate or allude to an ancient Mesoamerican presence and migrations from what is today the United States.
The exhibit also includes chronicles, codices, annals and interviews regarding oral traditions that speak to ancient connections between peoples of the north and south. Part of the objective of the map exhibit examines how cartographers addressed this subject from the 1500s through the 1800s.
 

Sponsored by the UCLA César Chávez Center,

The UCLA YRL Bruman Map Collection and YRL Special Collections, UCLA