The Role of Commoners in Constructing Guiengola, a Fortified Zapotec City at the Eve of the Spanish Conquest" presented by Pedro Guillermo Ramon Celis

The Anthropology Club Lunchtime Series presenter is Pedro Guillermo Ramon Celis who will be discussing the methods that he used at Guiengola and were developed in collaboration with the communal landowners and the Zapotec descendant community of Tehuantepec. His project directly addresses their wishes to increase knowledge about their ancestors through a non-collection-based data strategy, like LiDAR scanning. The outcome of the LIDAR scan will be available and will provide information for years to come to future networks of heritage partners and community members. 

Pedro Guillermo Ramon Celis is a Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology at Indiana University and Teaching Fellow at Purdue University Fort Wayne, in addition, he has a background in both Sociocultural Anthropology and Archaeology. With more than a decade of dedicated experience, his work has revolved around research projects in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico since 2009. His primary research focus lies in exploring the intricate relationship between the Zapotec people and their ancestors in archaeological contexts.

For questions on the talk or about the Club, please contact Forrest Rommel ([email protected])

 
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