The Adventure Begins
Hi! My name is Katharine and I'm an anthropology student at UTSA, and I'll be documenting my summer study abroad here. I leave at 8:10 this morning to fly to Belize, where I'm participating in an archaeology field school. Huge shout out to UTSA's Top Scholar Program for allowing me to take advantage of this awesome opportunity! The field school is run by UTSA faculty and I will get to spend almost a month participating in the excavation of a couple different Maya sites in the Mopan Valley of Belize. I will be living with other students at Nabitunich, a rural "eco-hostel" that is based in a working ranch near the town of San Ignacio, so I'll be surrounded by animals! One of the bigger sites that I'll get to visit is Xunantunich. I've done research using artifacts from Xunantunich back in the lab at UTSA, so I can't wait to see it in person! According to Wikipedia, the site is haunted; its name translates to "Stone Woman," and in the 18...