A documentary premieres at The College of Wooster
The College of Wooster presents the documentary El-Perú Waka’: Twenty Years of Research at a Maya Center, highlighting the research of archaeologist Olivia C. Navarro-Farr, associate professor of archaeology and anthropology at the College. The documentary premiered at a campus screening at Gault Recital Hall in Scheide Music Center on November 9, 2022, during International Education Week.
The documentary, produced by Claire Pugel, director of video and multimedia at Wooster, showcases Dr. Navarro-Farr’s work on site in El-Perú Waka, an ancient Maya city located in northern Guatemala. After 20 years of excavation on site alongside an international team of colleagues and members of various local communities, Dr. Navarro-Farr and the Proyecto Arqueológico Waka’ (PAW) team, continue to make discoveries that add to historical understandings of the Early (about A.D. 250-550) and Late (about A.D. 550/600-800/850) Classic periods of ancient Maya civilization.
Dr. Navarro-Farr’s research and travel as well as the making of this documentary has been made possible in part by support from the following Wooster funds: Kendall-Rives Endowed American Research Grant, James and Jean McClung Endowment for Faculty Development, and Henry Luce III Endowed Fund for Distinguished Scholarship.
Photo Gallery & Insights from El-Perú Waka’
