The last two weeks were extremely hot, but we had no precipitation or thunderstorms (as occurred in past seasons). 2024 constituted an entire field season without one day lost because of rain. This is a first – and certainly indicative of the changing climate conditions.<...
Another rainless week.
This week was spent doing necessary laboratory work. All of pottery sherds that had been excavated during the 2024 field season were numbered. The ceramic vessels that had been recovered during 2024...
Overall this was a very busy and stressful week. It was our last week of excavation with everything finished by Friday. Backfilling was almost complete by Saturday noon – with the exception of one structure in the Coffee residential group and the reservoir excavations. Ag...
Another full week of beautiful weather and no rain. At the end of the week, we finished excavation in Vanilla, Maple, and Cream. Vanilla still has drawings to be done. The only excavations still open are in Coffee and in the reservoir to the southwest of Coffee (which was o...
The week started out rainy and damp because of a heavy rainfall on Sunday, but then each day was bright and sunny. The end of the week saw the full moon light up our camp in the middle of the night.
On Tuesday and Thursda...
The weather held once more for the entire week and excavations progressed nicely. Diane flew into Belize on Thursday and was on site for Friday and Saturday, leaving Belize to return to Houston on Sunday. Rumari Ku from the Institute of Archaeology also joined the project o...
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,...
This is the first real week of archaeological work for the 2023 field season. I was out of camp on Sunday night to do an airport pickup. On Monday, I did shopping in the morning in Cayo for items that we needed (including a chain saw) and then drove to the Belize City airpo...
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 ...