All backfilling was completed by Monday at 10 AM. The nine men who comprise the labor force were all placed on sherd numbering duty; by the end of the day Tuesday all of the sherds were numbered. Thus, with little left to do for the bulk of the labor pool, I took six of the...
This week started out with a Sunday trip to Cuevas for the staff. Mo led the intrepid explorers through the bush at that site to see where she had excavated in the past and then led them into the depths of the cave - before climbing back into the vehicle and going for lunch...
We are over the hump in terms of the field season and some of the excavations are beginning to be closed. Excavation has been completed in both the Astro and Nasa residential groups and there is only some drawing left to do.
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We have reached the mid-point of the field season and are appropriately finishing excavations in residential groups and starting investigations in new residential groups. The weather has held up well and we have generally been blessed with sunshine (although this means that...
We had rain on Sunday. It looked clear when we got up on Monday, but everyone came back into camp because of rain on Monday by 11 AM. Tuesday was clear. I dropped everyone off Tuesday and then went back to camp for a cooler (for frozen meat), an egg crate (for 12 dozen eggs...
Excavations are in full swing as of this week and are moving along quite well. By the end of the week, we had excavations taking place in three groups.
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Covid severely disrupted the affairs of the Caracol Archaeological Project. After a full 2020 field season, the pandemic forced us to cancel planned field seasons for both 2021 and 2022. Thus, the 37th field season of the project is finally taking place in 2023. ...
The final week of the project was a blur of work as we finished with the artifact processing. The distant news about the coronavirus situation in the United States added a surreal aura to everything, especially given that tourists were still flocking to Caracol in re...
This week has been extremely busy for us. We finished excavations and field drawings, backfilled all the open trenches and areal investigations, and were graced by a film crew preparing a documentary. All of this activity was a worthwhile distraction from the news of...
This week started out as hot and dry and ended as cold and wet. Section drawing began in earnest this week with Adrian drawing sections of C224B, C225B, C225C, and C225E. He had started on a section of C226B and Gabriela had started on C226C, when this activity had t...