Chan Chich Archaeological Project

Chan Chich Archaeological Project Welcome to the page for the Chan Chich Archaeological Project (CCAP). The CCAP is a researc Houk of Texas Tech University (TTU).

The Chan Chich Archaeological Project (CCAP) is directed by Dr. Brett A. The project includes a research component and an archaeological field school for undergraduate and graduate students. The field school is run as a Study Abroad program through TTU and offers between 6 and 9 hours of Anthropology credit. The CCAP conducts archaeological excavations at Chan Chich and explores the forest surroun

ding the ruins. In all cases, the excavations are directed at specific research questions and in many cases contribute to graduate student thesis projects.

CCAP congratulates Brooke Bonorden for winning Texas Tech’s Outstanding Thesis Award for 2018 in the category of Social ...
14/06/2018

CCAP congratulates Brooke Bonorden for winning Texas Tech’s Outstanding Thesis Award for 2018 in the category of Social Sciences for her study of two late colonial period archaeological sites in northwestern Belize!

CCAP is back in the field! Apologies for the lack of updates, but we are wrapping up our second week in Belize with five...
05/06/2018

CCAP is back in the field! Apologies for the lack of updates, but we are wrapping up our second week in Belize with five more to go. To whet your appetite, here is a photo of Tomás Gallareta Cervera and Bridgette Degnan inspecting some ancient Maya graffiti last night at Chan Chich. Photographing the graffiti at night allows you to manipulate the light source to bring out more detail than you can see during the day.

CCAP archaeologists visited Casey Community school today to talk about Belizean heritage and archaeology! They showed th...
29/05/2018

CCAP archaeologists visited Casey Community school today to talk about Belizean heritage and archaeology! They showed the kids artifacts and passed out a coloring book. Thanks for having us, Casey!

Happy 2018, everyone! To celebrate, the CCAP is making the 2017 project report available. You can read all about our exc...
13/01/2018

Happy 2018, everyone! To celebrate, the CCAP is making the 2017 project report available. You can read all about our exciting finds this past season! Download it now from our website.

Home page for the Chan Chich Archaeological Project and Belize Estates Archaeological Survey Team

The digging is over, but the gruesome analysis of artifacts continues! Bridgette Degnan and Rebecca Schultz took over th...
15/07/2017

The digging is over, but the gruesome analysis of artifacts continues! Bridgette Degnan and Rebecca Schultz took over the bar table to sort debitage. No one knows why Bridgette felt the need to crawl on the table, but whatever it takes to get the job done in the name of science!

It's the end of the season at Chan Chich, and that means lots of drawing! Dr. Gallareta braves mud and mosquitoes to dra...
08/07/2017

It's the end of the season at Chan Chich, and that means lots of drawing! Dr. Gallareta braves mud and mosquitoes to draw the section of a Late Preclassic platform in the Upper Plaza.

Cristo, eat your heart out! We are using the second largest suspension bridge in Belize to dry tarps.
07/07/2017

Cristo, eat your heart out! We are using the second largest suspension bridge in Belize to dry tarps.

07/07/2017
We had a permit for this! Mark Willis flew his newest drone as part of the mapping project this season.
05/07/2017

We had a permit for this! Mark Willis flew his newest drone as part of the mapping project this season.

Remember when "the mother of all" whatever was a thing? Well, while conducting "pole aerial photography" Structure from ...
05/07/2017

Remember when "the mother of all" whatever was a thing? Well, while conducting "pole aerial photography" Structure from Motion mapping at Courtyard D-4, Mark Willis took the mother of all selfies with Trudy Kilgore's crew on Structure D-41.

Drs. Valdez and Sullivan stopped by to analyze ceramics today. We had a fewsurprises: some Postclassic and some early Mi...
04/07/2017

Drs. Valdez and Sullivan stopped by to analyze ceramics today. We had a few
surprises: some Postclassic and some early Middle Preclassic, from different contexts.

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