Archaeology Internships in Mexico

Having studied in Madrid the previous semester I really wanted to come back and have a different type of work experience during the summer. I enjoyed the laid back environment of my internship with Fundación Tríangulo yet I gained valuable insight about public health and sexual health in Spain, among many other skills which will benefit my future career/studies. I did enjoy the centrality of our apartment but it was quite small, I know this is normal for Madrid, but I we did not exactly have private living spaces. I really love Madrid and the availability of outdoor activities, shopping, diverse food choices, the kind people, nightlife, and much more. It will stay in my heart forever, the memories, friends, education and work experience, and I hope to return soon.

i wanna say hello to the friends i met there - haula, kim, and rabeen. the arts and history are my passions and this internship confirmed me that. thank you IGS for the beautiful internship. i wont forget it

This is my first trip abroad. and it is for an internship on hospitality and tourism. I heard Mexico is a good place for such things and I'm right. I was assigned at the front desk of a hotel and the co-workers with me are nice and professional. I saw how they handled concerns, no matter how petty, with such grace and confidence. I aspire to be just like them.

Mexico is awesome. I had my internship on research and development. Mr. Adams is very helpful and responsive to my needs. My mentor Ms. Mitchell is great to work with. Next time I'll do another internship but maybe in another continent, I'm eyeing on Asia.

I had the chance to do an internship for archeology and I enjoyed every minute of it! During the internship, I volunteered to do administrative tasks and reports on historical research. We are also encouraged to attend staff and planning meetings. I feel like I am really an archaeologist already! Even though it would take me three years more.

it was a new knowledge for me to know how to catalog artifacts.. we did a lot of research and digging and interviewing.. the experts we met on the field are very helpful to us.. cared for us like we are babies.. For me, the experience is okay. I would recommend it to my friends.

Thank you, IGS, for this wonderful experience. It was actually a surprise that I liked it so much. My expectations were low, but you exceeded them a million times! The accommodation is superb, and my co-interns too! We did a lot of research and actual digging, and we had to hike to get to the excavation site. It was not boring at all, because my co-interns are so silly and making jokes the whole time.

All I can attest to is that this internship is intensive. We experienced all forms of research - from the actual dig to reading into libraries to interviewing residents near the area. Archeology is my current Minor in college, and these exhaustive works excite me much. Some people see archeological digging as “dirty” but no, it’s not! Discovering an artifact and studying the ancient human past through material remains are so much more interesting than lying around and being “clean”.

It was my first time to go out of my country, and it was remarkable. In my IGS internship, we worked with well-known university researchers, and are assigned both field and laboratory works. I was personally delegated to conduct research on historical events and collect the oral histories of the area. I used to read in my textbooks that the oldest traces of human presence in Quito were excavated by my favourite American archaeologist Robert Bell in 1960, on the slopes of the Ilaló volcano. I can’t believe I’m doing the same things he used to do, and on the same place!

Greetings!​ I spent my fall in Malawi, Africa before joining Intern Down Under. I interned with an archaeologist in Sydney and at an animal park in Auckland. I helped organize some weekend excursions for the group to Hobbiton where Lord of the Rings was filmed and to a mountain getaway on the coast. Sampling new restaurants is a favorite pastime and you can see some of my restaurant and excursion reviews below.