The sixth week of excavation started off much like the first – with heavy rains. Beginning on Sunday night, it rained almost continually through early Wednesday. Thus, Monday and Tuesday were spent doing necessary laboratory work, with the students washing and cataloging materials and the men num...
The 2012 field season continues to keep the project very busy. This week, we continued to find a series of deposits. In Zumba, excavation of the front tomb continued; it has now produced a total of 40 vessels (and not enough bone); further analysis should yield some permutations on Maya burial a...
Things got very busy this week. The excavations continued and we had at least one deposit every day, some of them quite memorable. Needless to say, we are accumulating a lot of laboratory work. Excavation was begun in the final group selected for investigation, a small plazuela located south...
The 2012 Caracol Archaeological Project started on January 19, when the first 6 men were brought back to the site to do camp repair and to begin to bush the various groups that have been selected for excavation. On January 24, the kitchen was formally opened when the four cooks arrived in camp. ...
This week was spent finishing all the cataloguing, drawing, and photography that goes into a successful filed season. By Wednesday, all of the necessary artifacts were boxed and documented for transport to the Institute of Archaeology. The beginning of the week was also spent on tasks other th...
The week opened first with a Baron Bliss celebration and then with a nasty storm that blew over a series of trees throughout epicentral Caracol. One fell over and through one of the stabilizer’s huts near the site museum; another large branch took out part of the men’s outhouse. In spite o...
This week saw the conclusion of excavation in three groups, most being completed on either Friday or Saturday. Both Structures F34 and F35 in Alta Vista were taken down to bedrock – located almost 5 meters below the surface in Structure F35. Chalpat saw the two of its three buildings complete...