It was just another typical day for the students of the PADO archaeological field school. The weather was tolerable, the snacks were delicious and the work progressed just that much further.


Over at Structure 1, Thomas, Emily and Inga opened a new excavation unit in their never-ending search for architecture.


Tomoe, Merrideth and Denton, under the supervision of "Wild Bill" McFarlane at Structure 9, also opened a new excavation unit.


And finally, over in the shaded area to the west of Structure 5, Ben, Ivey and Eric finished yesterday's 10 centimeter level and started on a new one.

Even though there's lots of archaeology at Sinsimbla, there's also a lot of wildlife. In addition to the cattle who are ever-curious about what these crazy gringos are doing digging square holes in their field, today the men who were clearing the site found a snake that they pronounced to be a False Fer de Lance (Xenodon rabdocephalus). Though no one is sure how they managed it, the snake was put inside a soda bottle so the students could see it.


Following the excitement of the morning and a lunch of beans, plantains, rice and tortillas, the afternoon was spent in the lab cleaning and processing artifacts, repairing the screens used for sifting through the dirt and entering field notes into the computers. All in all, it was a good day in Honduras.