The final week of the project was a blur of work as we finished with the artifact processing. The distant news about the coronavirus situation in the United States added a surreal aura to everything, especially given that tourists were still flocking to Caracol in re...
This week has been extremely busy for us. We finished excavations and field drawings, backfilled all the open trenches and areal investigations, and were graced by a film crew preparing a documentary. All of this activity was a worthwhile distraction from the news of...
This week started out as hot and dry and ended as cold and wet. Section drawing began in earnest this week with Adrian drawing sections of C224B, C225B, C225C, and C225E. He had started on a section of C226B and Gabriela had started on C226C, when this activity had t...
We have gone past the halfway point of the field season and are now starting to think about how to close out our various excavations and to make sure that everything is finished. The weather this week compounded some of our anxieties about getting things done, especi...
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...
A busy week in the trenches… All excavations are under way and are producing interesting materials.
In Jack Residential Group we started the week with two more caches in the front plaza area as well ...
The blog was posted early this week as we were on an airport run and had access to internet in town, while Caracol still didn’t have satellite communication. The airport run was accomplished Thursday morning and the satellite was successfully linked to the Caracol ...
The week is not yet over, but we are out in San Ignacio to take Diane to the airport tomorrow and to pick up meat and some supplies. Since the satellite dish has not yet been connected at C...
Caracol 2020 – the 36th consecutive field season for the project. And, it is dry with no rain. The Macal River is a trickle of water at the Gacamallo Bridge. The wet season was...