Week 5 (February 18-24) (Read the entire post)
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Week 4 (February 11 – 17) (Read the entire post)
Week 3, the project finally reached “full force” with the addition of 3 more men on Tuesday (Jose, Gerardo, and Edwin). We now have 12 men engaged in excavations with the students and staff. Adrian has his own group that he transports back and forth to “West Puchituk” and Arlen transports t...
Week 3 (February 4 – 10, 2019) (Read the entire post)
The third week of the field season was the first one with any excavation, especially as we welcomed four new students to Caracol on January 31, and only received 4 additional men on Sunday, February 3. Accordingly, we began research in earnest on Monday, February 4 with half the crew going to local...
Weeks 1 and 2 (January 18 – February 3) (Read the entire post)
Starting up an archaeological field season at a remote location usually takes a while and is a slow drawn out process. In the case of Caracol it would not even be possible without the aid of the Institute of Archaeology and especially Brian Woodye. In order to get the season under way, the first...
Week 8 (March 19 – March 24) (Read the entire post)
The final week at Caracol was devoted to finishing the necessary laboratory work along with artifact drawings and photos. Everything was largely completed by the end of the day Wednesday. This left Thursday to do packing and let the men begin to break-down the camp. Brian Woodye and David Gri...
Week 7 (March 12 – March 18) (Read the entire post)
This was another sunny and dry week. All in-field drawing was finished on Monday. Also on Monday, we started backfilling all of our excavations. Faydt worked with the backfilling team and they finished everything by the end of the day on Wednesday. On Tuesday, I drove out to the Georgeville t...
Week 6 (March 5 – March 11) (Read the entire post)
This was a very complicated week in terms of comings and goings. Excavation continued all week, but was interrupted by a national municipal election in Belize, which meant that 7 men went out to vote on Tuesday evening and were gone for almost all of Wednesday. Besides the election, I drove to the ...
Week 5 (February 26 – March 4) (Read the entire post)
Like last week, the entire week was sunny. However, we did get some rain on Saturday afternoon that appears to have ushered in a cold front. All of the excavations moved at a good pace this week and we are hoping to be largely finished by the end of next week in order to transition into laboratory ...
Week 4 (February 19 – February 25) (Read the entire post)
What a difference a week of no rain makes. This was a sunny week except for an afternoon shower on Friday afternoon. All of the excavations progressed significantly. Cheech Residential Group In the Cheech Residential Group (C209), a beautiful alleyway appeared in between the tw...
Week 3 (February 12 – February 19) (Read the entire post)
This was the week of rain, mud, water puddles, and a squishy walk to the top of the hill supporting the Puchituk Terminus. In spite of that, we succeeded in opening up all of the initial excavations that we wanted to do, bringing lunch out with everybody so as to not have to do the walk twice a day...