The final week of the project saw the completion of all of the necessary tasks, but it required concentrated effort on the part of everybody and very long workdays. Excavation continued through Tuesday, when the final investigation was completed. Backfilling was over at mid-day on Wednesday – and...
The sixth week of excavation started off much like the first – with heavy rains. Beginning on Sunday night, it rained almost continually through early Wednesday. Thus, Monday and Tuesday were spent doing necessary laboratory work, with the students washing and cataloging materials and the men num...
The 2012 field season continues to keep the project very busy. This week, we continued to find a series of deposits. In Zumba, excavation of the front tomb continued; it has now produced a total of 40 vessels (and not enough bone); further analysis should yield some permutations on Maya burial a...
Things got very busy this week. The excavations continued and we had at least one deposit every day, some of them quite memorable. Needless to say, we are accumulating a lot of laboratory work. Excavation was begun in the final group selected for investigation, a small plazuela located south...
The 2012 Caracol Archaeological Project started on January 19, when the first 6 men were brought back to the site to do camp repair and to begin to bush the various groups that have been selected for excavation. On January 24, the kitchen was formally opened when the four cooks arrived in camp. ...