MEXICO CITY.- The recent opening to the public of the Bocana del Rio Copalita Archaeological Zone in Huatulco, Oaxaca, represents the beginning of a new age in restoration and research, which will eventually provide new data regarding the hierarchy that dominated this Prehispanic city, that might have lived there. More than a decade of investigations in this place located 10 kilometers away from Huatulco Bay have allowed to determine that its first dwellers were families and small communities that settled in the Oaxaca Coast; it was until 500 BC that the locality became clearly defined, which lasted until 400 or 500 of the Common Era. According to Raul Matadamas Diaz, director of Bocana del Rio Copalita Archaeological Project and researcher at the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), studies conducted indicate that population might have exceeded 2,000 persons. “The