2014 SCRAP report & the 2015 season

Hi Everyone!

I wanted to let you all know that the final report of our 2014 season is up on our new project website, scraparchaeology.com, where it can be downloaded from the "Publications" tab. It is through this website that we will continue to blog from the field, post photos, and share publications, presentations, and data.

I just submitted our 2014 final report to the Belize Institute of Archaeology this morning, and had a meeting with the Director of Archaeology to submit our application for the 2015 permit. It is shaping up to be a great season, during which we will complete our GPS survey of the settlement (1.5km2 to go); surface collect artifacts from all settlement sites in order to create a preliminary settlement chronology and to pinpoint areas for excavation in 2016; geochemically characterize and source granite, ceramic, and obsidian materials; and create a new total station map of the epicentre, including the new structures we found in 2014.

Also, Tawny Tibbits (a new project member) and I will be presenting on our research at the upcoming annual meetings of the Canadian Archaeological Association in St. John's, Newfoundland in late April/early May (see http://www.mun.ca/caa2015/intro.html). If you can make it, we'd love to see you there!

Once again, thank you so much for your support. We would have never been able to begin our work at Alabama without you!

Cheers!

Meaghan