- I was obsessed, and still am obsessed,
with the show Forensic Files.
And for some reason every time
they had an interview with
a forensics anthropologist
I was just like, "That's
the coolest thing ever."
They had an episode where
somebody's skull was shattered
and they had to put it
together like a literal puzzle,
and I was like, "I wanna
be able to do that."
Today, we are in Archeological
Method and Theory
and we're learning how to dig,
we're learning about stratigraphy,
going down 10 centimeters
at a time and documenting
what's in each one of those
layers and why it matters.
I just always thought that
it was really really cool
being able to look at
just the bones of somebody
and tell was it a boy or a girl,
were they African-American,
or American Indian,
or what kind of life did they live,
you can tell what kind of stuff they ate,
sometimes where they were raised,
in what part of the country.
So I always thought that was really cool.
It's like a puzzle.
- I was born in Guatemala
and came to the United States
when I was three yeas old.
And something that I noticed when I was
in middle school and high
school studying history
was that there is not a lot
of history on Latin America.
I had a really good history teacher,
and just learning about
different artifacts
that were found around
the world and how they,
people built history just from that,
and like create a story over it,
automatically got my attention.
What I plan on doing is going to Guatemala
and excavating there, and
hopefully finding the artifacts
that will help bring a broader spectrum
to Guatemalan history in general.
