Most people assume that Belize = vacation! For most, it does. Sadly, we rarely see the cayes, but we love coming here anyway. The places we go look like this:
Saturday Creek is a site the my friend Lisa excavated several years back (see the mound in the background?). It's in the middle of a corn field (above), but the largest structures are covered in bush (below):
They are planting right now, so some of the mounds get pretty banged up from the plows and churn up a lot of artifacts on the surface. The site's namesake:
Another nearby site:
Here is David and our guide John (the landowner) who showed us around, standing on the tallest structure at Cocos Bank:
I am looking at the ceramics that were excavated from this area and am hoping to continue work in this part of the middle Belize River in the future.
We give the different ceramic types names and they can tell us the rough time period of a site.
(I named this last one...the red necks are all over the place in the Sibun Valley and I'm finding them in the middle Belize Valley too!)
[this is good] "I'm finding them in the middle Belize Valley too!)"
Wait, so you're telling me SRNs exist in the Belize Valley, but hadn't been typed before?????? How crazy is that??
Posted by: RawheaD | 07/11/2009 at 11:04 AM