Vacay

I am in Placencia right now, at the beach. This is our "vacation" time and the few days of no work are much needed. Today I rented a bike and rode up and down the south end of the penninsula a couple times. Tine, it totally reminded me of our bike experience last summer in Florida. This time there was no massive rainstorm with lightning too close for comfort. However, I did have a piece of key lime pie when it was over.

I found a human burial in the structure I am excavating. You don't get those in the States with NAGPRA and all so it was a great experience for me. There was a pot in the burial and we found some teeth and cranial fragments sticking out of the top so we think the body in the burial was decapitated (pre or post mortem?) and his/her head was put in the bowl. We extracted the bowl and next week Willa and I will work on it in the lab to see if the skull really is in there. Next week I am going to test some other structures in the settlement group to get an idea what their function was.