Success!

We did it! A huge thank-you to everyone who helped us exceed our funding target and win the Archaeology Grant Challenge! We were in a closely contested race with competition from some amazing archaeological projects, and we are amazed and honored at the outpouring of support for our Experiment. It might seem cliche to say "we couldn't have done it without you," but it's true, so we'll say instead: We would never have been able to reach our goals without the generous and timely support of our backers! 

We have updated our funding goals to include additional personnel to expand our capabilities in the field. More boots on the ground means broader survey coverage, faster data collection, and more people to investigate structures in the low-lying swampy areas. We are also planning to involve Guatemalan colleagues in the upcoming field season, who bring essential survey experience to the El Pilar project.

We will be contacting our backers shortly to thank you all for your support, and we will continue to post lab notes about LiDAR and our settlement survey analyses on Experiment. We will be going back to the field to continue our investigations this spring, and we will keep our supporters informed of our findings in a variety of different ways. In short: stay tuned for more updates!

And once again, Thank You all so much for your support!

-Sherman and Anabel