Author: Mack FitzPatrick

“Mi estimado,” Wilder messaged me via WhatsApp a little before 9 PM. “Espérame en el portón para ir al frente a ver un caso. En 3 minutos llego.”

While researching how to get to the town of Leymebamba, Peru, where I would be working in the community museum for the summer, I was met with three options.

Before the summer of 2022, I had been lucky enough to participate in two archaeological excavations in South America, in 2018 at the site of Sol de Campinas in Acre, Brazil, and in 2019, at the site of San José de Moro in Peru.