"National Geographic Society's Committee for Research and Exploration has awarded you (MRP) a grant...in support of your proposed project "Excavation and analysis of an well-preserved ancient Maya fieldhouse associated with ancient ditched field agricultural systems at the Classic Maya city of Blue Creek, Belize."
MRP has received a grant from the National Geographic Society to excavate and analyze materials from a buried, well-preserved wooden field house at Blue Creek. This is the first time that such as structure has ever been found in the Maya area. The field house was found next to an ancient canal and was probably used by farmers while cultivating and harvesting. This grant will allow us to bring a group of specialists to Belize during the excavation and will give us the ability to conduct botanical, faunal and soil analyses.
This is great news for us at Blue Creek and especially for the Doctors Beach, Tim and Sheryl, and Dr Tim Bozarth who have been working in the ditched fields for as long as I have known them. Staff at MRP will be excavating the fieldhouse just before this summers field season. Unfortunately, we can not wait for the arrival of volunteers for this project. If the rains start early we will not be able to go ahead with the dig.
I will be postiong information on this excavation as time and internet connections allow, and of course we will be talking about the excavation throughout the summer.
The great pyramid of Cholula with a colonial church on its summit and a modern fieldhouse in the foreground.
