We continue to have a great field season. Today we excavated another area of the Ceren sacbe (road). Our excavations have maize fields on each side of the sacbe. Our plaster plant casts of the maize (corn) show multiple ears of corn and in one case we are even able to see the corn kernals.
Check out the photo published a few weeks back of our of our plant casts:
http://news.yahoo.com/photos/christine-dixon-student-university-colorado-shows-ear-corn-photo-230357713.html
We also documented an ancient manioc field that was so worn down and compacted, we were able to interpret this as a manioc field that was no longer in use at the Ceren site at the time of the eruption. The fields appear to have been not used for a season or longer (given the erosion and compacted areas).
I will post more when our Internet connection is a bit stronger (rainy season makes for more difficult Internet connections) and plan some upcoming posts on paleoethnobotony, lab work, and a list of fields dos and don'ts to remember! Stay tuned. For now I'm going to go see what the latest flying bug is that has caused half of my field crew to run around screaming.
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