2012 Blogs & Photos

Week 7 (March 12-17): (Read the entire post)

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...

Week 6 (March 5 – March 11, 2012) (Read the entire post)

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...

Week 5 (February 27-March 4, 2012) (Read the entire post)

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...

Week 4 (February 19-26, 2012) (Read the entire post)

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...

Week 3 (February 13-19, 2012) (Read the entire post)

The third week of excavation saw dirt moving in four very different groups.  Besides excavation, the good news is that the weather has changed and we received no rain this week.

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Week 2 (February 6-12, 2012) (Read the entire post)

Another busy week at Caracol.  Diane and Elyse arrived on Sunday.  Diane was only in camp for the beginning of the week, but she dug one cache in Zumba and recorded another; she went back to Orlando mid-week and will be back at the en...

Week 1 (January 18–February 3, 2012) (Read the entire post)

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. ...