The final week of the Caracol Archaeological Project was rainy. After almost an entire season of sunny days, the weather finally turned. However, it could not have happened at a better time. All the back-filling had been completed and no one was in the field. All the...
All backfilling was completed by Monday at 10 AM. The nine men who comprise the labor force were all placed on sherd numbering duty; by the end of the day Tuesday all of the sherds were numbered. Thus, with little left to do for the bulk of the labor pool, I took six of the...
This week started out with a Sunday trip to Cuevas for the staff. Mo led the intrepid explorers through the bush at that site to see where she had excavated in the past and then led them into the depths of the cave - before climbing back into the vehicle and going for lunch...
We are over the hump in terms of the field season and some of the excavations are beginning to be closed. Excavation has been completed in both the Astro and Nasa residential groups and there is only some drawing left to do.
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We have reached the mid-point of the field season and are appropriately finishing excavations in residential groups and starting investigations in new residential groups. The weather has held up well and we have generally been blessed with sunshine (although this means that...
We had rain on Sunday. It looked clear when we got up on Monday, but everyone came back into camp because of rain on Monday by 11 AM. Tuesday was clear. I dropped everyone off Tuesday and then went back to camp for a cooler (for frozen meat), an egg crate (for 12 dozen eggs...
Excavations are in full swing as of this week and are moving along quite well. By the end of the week, we had excavations taking place in three groups.
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Covid severely disrupted the affairs of the Caracol Archaeological Project. After a full 2020 field season, the pandemic forced us to cancel planned field seasons for both 2021 and 2022. Thus, the 37th field season of the project is finally taking place in 2023. ...