The weather has held for the entire week, which started off cold and then warmed up by the weekend. Excavation has proceeded in four groups this week, one of which was finished.
The first group that was opened, Chocolate,...
Adrian and I arrived in Belize on Sunday January 21, 2024 and were picked up at the airport by Brian Woodye and transported to the San Ignacio Hotel. On Monday we met with Dr. Melissa Badillo in ...
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...
Adrian and I arrived in Belize on January 24, after having spent the previous night at the Dallas airport hotel. We were met by Brian Woodye, who is coordinating camp start-up. Six men and four ladies have been at camp since January 20. We spent 3 nights in San Ignacio Cayo, meeting John Morris for...
It is hard to believe the field season is over! We successfully cataloged, reconstructed, drew, and photographed all the key artifacts and backfilled every excavation. Everyone should be back home as of this posting....
We had our traditional Baron Bliss Day barbeque today. We had grilled chicken cooked over a zapote wood fire with tortillas, potato salad, our special spicy barbeque sauce, and brownies for desert. It was...
We have been slowed down by the weather this week. We lost part of the week to rain. We badly needed water to fill the tanks for drinking and bathing - as well as time to wash artifacts, but digging and f...
It has been a fast-paced week. We are continuing to clear and cut into all of the excavations and are beginning to find burials and caches in many of them. Most of the structures in Culebras only have cut s...
After 24 field seasons (and countless excavations) we uncovered the first chert eccentrics from Caracol today! There were 3 chert eccentrics (1 is clearly visible in the photo) along with 7 eccentric obsidians, spondlyus shell, and inlay fragments from a mirror. It was an elaborate cache pla...
It is HOT this evening; rain and lightning moved through the area, but left us dry. Hopefully it will cool off some before morning.