Collaboration with Mexico's School of Anthropology (ENAH) Field School

During the summer of 2025, the Guiengola Archaeological Project, directed by Guillermo Ramón Celis--Banting Postdoctoral Researcher in the Anthropology Department at McGill University--mentored twelve students from Mexico's National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH). Together, they surveyed a neighborhood of Guiengola, a fortified Zapotec city in southern Oaxaca that was occupied during the period when Europeans first arrived in the region.

Jesús Rosales, one of the students, shared his experience at a Mexican Anthropology Students Forum by creating a two-minute video highlighting what they learned and accomplished during the project - watch the video on YouTube.

This collaboration will continue in 2026, as Guillermo plans to expand the survey to another sector of the site with a new cohort of ENAH students. This time, they will explore how Zapotec communities transformed their landscape by using resources from the river that flows alongside this pre-Hispanic city.