This week saw a concerted effort to attempt to draw the excavations to a close so that laboratory work could proceed. As of week’s end, only 2 of the 5 excavations are still open. West of Caana, work proceeded on fully exposing the south facing of Structure A37 (C208) and on taking out the bal...
In general, the weather at Caracol has been cloudy and overcast for most of the week and the nights have been “cold,” but nowhere near the cold weather that the U.S. east coast – and even Orlando, Florida where it was 30 degrees – has been experiencing. At Caracol, moral is high and the ...
This week constituted the second real week of excavation and it was fairly power-packed. Camp life has settled into a rhythm and all of the excavations are starting to yield significant finds. Filed under: 2015 Blogs & Photos on February 17th, 2015 | 2 Comments »
Senior staff arrived on site on Saturday January 31 and junior staff arrived on Wednesday February 4, the same day that Diane flew back to Florida after helping to set up the various investigations to be carried out during 2015 at Caracol. Formal ...
The 2015 Caracol field season actually began on January 17, when the initial four men were brought into camp to begin readying the facilities for our 31st year of research at the site. On January 2...
The last week of the 2014 field season was a blur of laboratory work, drawing, and photography. But, by Friday morning when we were all extracted from Caracol, everything was finished and the 30th field season of the Caracol Archaeological Project was over. Even though technically Baron Bliss Da...
Backfilling started on Monday as we were finishing excavations. All four excavation locales in Alegre were backfilled on Monday. Tuesday saw the backfilling finished in Dormir, Tonto, and part of Sonrisa. On Monday, we finished with the excavation of the Sonrisa C201B chultun and the final recordin...
This was supposed to be the week that we transitioned from the field to laboratory work, but at the end of the week we still have three excavations open. Lab work, however, was started with a vengeance. By weeks end, three groups were completely finished and ready for backfilling. The last excav...
The mid-way point of the season has now passed and we are beginning to transition out of field investigations and into laboratory analysis. Like Week 3, Week 4 was another power-packed timespan for excavation. In Alegre (C199), all investigations are closed with the exception of C199B, where Jac...
This week, the project hit full stride, finishing some excavations, starting others, and finding a host of special deposits. We started with rain, which turned our path to the excavations into a muddy mess and ended the week with two days of sunshine. In Alegre, Jackie, Alex, and Minel continued...