The week began with a Baron Bliss barbeque on Sunday to celebrate the individual who never set foot on Belizean soil (living in his yacht off Belize City) but who left his entire fortune to the country. It was also the same weekend as the Belize River 4-day canoe race, which started last Friday in ...
This week saw the transition from fieldwork to laboratory work. At the beginning of the week two excavations were still open; at the end of the week all excavations were backfilled or readied for future stabilization (as determined by the Institute of Archaeology). The central excavation in the ...
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...