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Week 6 (February 24 – March 1, 2020) (Read the entire post)

  We have gone past the halfway point of the field season and are now starting to think about how to close out our various excavations and to make sure that everything is finished. The weather this week compounded some of our anxieties about getting things done, especi...

Week 5 (February 17 – 23, 2020) (Read the entire post)

  The week was dry until Saturday, when it rained beginning at 4 AM. It rained again after midnight and during early Sunday morning, but then the sun came out to dry our screens.

  Most of the effort in Jack Res...

Week 4 (February 10 – February 16, 2020) (Read the entire post)

  A busy week in the trenches…  All excavations are under way and are producing interesting materials.

  In Jack Residential Group we started the week with two more caches in the front plaza area as well ...

Week 3: Part B (Read the entire post)

  The blog was posted early this week as we were on an airport run and had access to internet in town, while Caracol still didn’t have satellite communication. The airport run was accomplished Thursday morning and the satellite was successfully linked to the Caracol ...

Week 3 (February 3 – February 9, 2020) (Read the entire post)

               The week is not yet over, but we are out in San Ignacio to take Diane to the airport tomorrow and to pick up meat and some supplies. Since the satellite dish has not yet been connected at C...

Weeks 1 & 2 (January 16 – February 2, 2020) (Read the entire post)

               Caracol 2020 – the 36th consecutive field season for the project. And, it is dry with no rain. The Macal River is a trickle of water at the Gacamallo Bridge. The wet season was...

Week 9 (March 18 – March 23) (Read the entire post)

Season Finale

The final week of the season saw all of the staff come together as a unit to finish the laboratory work and recording to properly close the field season. Diane completed the preliminary skeletal analysis of all of the deposits recovered from the various excavations. Adrian a...

Week 8 (March 11 – 17, 2019) (Read the entire post)

Baron Bliss Day

Week 8 marked a shift in what we have been doing for most of the field season. We moved from focusing on excavation to only doing laboratory work. The natural break between excavation and laboratory work was Sunday, March 10, which was Baron Bliss Day in Belize. Baron B...

Week 7 (March 4 – 10) (Read the entire post)

Disappearing snake

The week started off with a snake in the roof of Outhouse 3. For the second time this season, by the time the men got to the outhouse, the snake was gone. Earlier in the season, the disappearing snake had been seen in Outhouse 2, but we knew it was still around because ...

Week 6 (February 25 – March 3) (Read the entire post)

Make or break week

This was the “make or break” week of the field season, where everything needed to be opened and the end of the excavations needed to be in sight in preparation for the laboratory work that will occupy the final two weeks of the field season. Luckily, this was als...