Abstract
The Boletin de Antropologia Americana, published between 1980 and 2012 by the Instituto Panamericano de Geografia e Historia in Mexico, was the key media to discuss the Latin American Social Archeology (ASL, in Spanish) movement. The scope of this theoretical model is analyzed through basic bibliometric analyses that allow to estimate the preponderance and persistence of the model over time, its main exponents, production at the theoretical level and its applications at the empirical level. The data shows that the greater number of ASL articles were produced between 1980 and 1994, with an emphasis on Mexican authors and cases, with a more theoretical than methodological development and with a lower representation of case studies.