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Week 9 (March 18 – 23, 2024)
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. Th...
Week 8 (March 11 – 17)
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 ...
Week 7 (March 4 – 10, 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 ...
Week 6 (February 26 – March 3, 2024)
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 ...
Week 5 (February 19 – 25)
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 nig...
Week 4 (February 12-18, 2023)
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 o...
Week 3 (February 5 – 11, 2024)
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 t...
Week 2 (January 29 – February 4, 2024)
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...
Week 1 (January 21 -27, 2024):
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 w...
Week 9 (March 20-26, 2023)
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. A...