Tour of K'axob (Page 4)

Each of the 7 excavations was supervised by an operation director: shown here are Marc Wolf, operation 8 (1990), Valerie McCormack, operation 8 (1992) and operation 11 (1992, 1993); Robert St. Laurent, operation 12 (1992); H. Hope Henderson, operation 10 (1992) and operation 12 (1993); Ingrid Martonova, operation 13 (1992); Lorren Jackson, operation 1 (1992); Matthew Bobo, operation 1 (1993), and Marilyn Masson, field director (1992). 

Marc Wolf, 1990 field school student, at Operation 8.

Valerie McCormack, director of Operations 8 and 11, positions a photo board.

Robert St. Laurent (left), director of Operation 12, shown with Amir Gonzalez (center) and Urbano Novelo (right).

H. Hope Henderson, director of Operations 10 and 12, with Vildo Gonzalez (left) and Santiago Martinez (right).

Ingrid Martonova, director of Operation 13, seen here as a 1990 field-school student mapping with the aid of a planning grid.

Lorren Jackson, 1992 director of Operation 1, shown here as a 1990 field school student.

Matthew Bobo, three-year veteran of the K'axob Project and 1993 director of Operation 1, seen here as staff member in 1992.

Marilyn Masson, 1992 field director, and project visitor Javier Urcid.

During each field season, lab directors supervised the processing of artifacts. During the initial season, this job was undertaken by field school student Lisa Shaul (assisted by Mari Sunahara). Our lab co-director in 1992 was Annabeth Headrick. in 1993, Timothy Scarlett and Stefan Claesson each split their time between field and lab. 

Lisa Shaul and Mari Sunahara, 1990 field school students, working on vessel consolidation.

Annabeth Headrick, 1992 lab co-director.

Timothy Scarlett, 1993 lab co-director

Stefan Claesson, 1993 lab co-director.

Project ceramicist, Sandra L. Lopez Varela, conducted pottery analysis in the field lab and was able to identify 5 temporally distinctive Formative-period ceramic complexes. Our osteologist, Rebecca Storey, faced the challenge of piecing together the story of the ancestors of K'axob from fragmentary and poorly preserved skeletal remains.

Sandra L. Lopez Varela, project ceramicist, and Dolph Widmer, visitor, 1992 field season.

Rebecca Storey, osteologist for the K'axob Project.