Ignacio Bernal

{{short description|Mexican anthropologist and archaeologist (1910–1992)}} '''Ignacio Bernal''' (February 13, 1910 in Paris - January 24, 1992 in Mexico City) was an eminent Mexican anthropologist and archaeologist.

Bernal excavated much of Monte Albán, originally starting as a student of Alfonso Caso, and later led major archeological projects at Teotihuacan. In 1965 he excavated Dainzú.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.inah.gob.mx/ZonasArqueologicas/todas/htme/za01711.html |title=Dainzú at INAH (in Spanish) |access-date=2008-10-10 |archive-date=2008-12-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081204042748/http://www.inah.gob.mx/ZonasArqueologicas/todas/htme/za01711.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was the director of Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology 1962-68 and again 1970–77. In 1965, he was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.<ref name=AAAS>{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterB.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|accessdate=24 June 2011}}</ref> Bernal was awarded the Premio Nacional in 1969. He was a founding member of the Third World Academy of Sciences in 1983.

== Biography == Bernal was the son of Rafael and Rafaela (Garcia Pimentel) Bernal. He married Sofia Verea on October 14, 1944, and had four children: Ignacio, Rafaela, Carlos, and Concepcion. He received his M.A. from the Escuela Nacional de Antropologia, Mexico in 1946 and his Ph.D. from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico in 1949.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/H1000007972/BIC?u=unlv_main&sid=BIC&xid=c98a7e33.|title=Contemporary Authors Online|date=2003|website=Biography in Context|access-date=17 October 2018}}</ref> His younger brother was the novelist Rafael Bernal.

==Books== Bernal's many publications include:<ref name=":0" />

*''Ancient Mexico in Colour'' (1979) * ''A History of Mexican Archaeology: the Vanished Civilizations of Middle America'' (1980). London, Thames and Hudson. {{ISBN|0-500-78008-0}} *''Mexico Before Cortez: Art, History, Legend'' (1963) * ''The Mexican National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico'' (1968) * ''The Olmec World''. Berkeley, University of California Press. (1969)

and

* Paddock, J., & Bernal, I. (1966). ''Ancient Oaxaca; Discoveries in Mexican Archeology and History''. Stanford, Calif, Stanford University Press.

== Awards ==

* H.H.D., University of Americas<ref name=":0" /> * L.H.D. (Doctor of Humane Letters), University of California, Berkeley<ref name=":0" /> * LL.D. (Doctor of Laws), St. Mary's University<ref name=":0" /> * National Science Award, Mexico<ref name=":0" />

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070522174903/http://www.colegionacional.org.mx/Bernal.htm Bio details, Colegio Nacional] {{in lang|es}} * [http://www.udlap.mx/vidaestudiantil/colegios/bernal/historia.htm#IB Bio details, Colegio Ignacio Bernal] {{in lang|es}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20060831065209/http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/abcde/bernal_ignacio.html Bio details, Minnesota State University]

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