Every year sees a start-up period before excavation begins – and this year was no different. Camp was opened on January 14 when Brian Woodye brought four men back to start cleaning and repairs. On Thursday January 15the kitchen was open and the three ladies w...
One excavation that was not overly represented in the 2025 blog was that labeled C117H associated with the Northeast Acropolis. This focused re-excavation of a small portion of the 1993 trench discovered a new tomb at the end of Week 3 of the field season, but only limited ...
The beginning of the week started out like the beginning of the field season – very wet. We had torrential rain on Monday and some drizzle on Tuesday. The only good part of this weather is that it got rid of the high temperatures that we had last week. The rain did...
This was one of the hottest weeks at Caracol with no rain whatsoever and temperatures in the 90s each day. The week was mostly spent making sure that everything was finished. Most staff moved into the laboratory for processing. The excavations in both residential groups wer...
The heat has set in at Caracol during the day, but the nights are still cool. This week saw us wrapping up excavations in the field and moving into the lab. Our work in the Northeast Acropolis finished last week and the investigations of the two residential groups we...
Another busy week at Caracol. Everyone has been hard at work in the trenches in anticipation of transitioning into laboratory work. We are hoping to wrap up excavations next week so that everyone can move into the lab to process all of the materials from this field s...
For the mid-point of the field season this was an appropriately busy week. Besides the normal excavation work, we also had filming at Caracol on Wednesday and Thursday by Roller Coast...
This was an incredibly eventful week during what seems to be an incredibly wet season. We had two completely sunny days this week and then intermittent rain and drizzle on the other d...
There was more rain this week (almost every morning), but no one seemed to notice because of how busy we were. In terms of logistics, Diane flew back to Houston on Monday the 3rd, having been able to review the excavation locales and what we were doing. I ...
The 2025 field season has proven to be very wet with rain disrupting things every other day during the end of January. However, this means that camp is well stocked with drinking water.
The field season got under way on J...