With less than a forty-eight hour turn around from teaching summer field I was off on a plane to the sweltering humidity of the Yucatan for fieldwork. It was a quick trip but I spent four days in and around central Yucatan examining modern quarries, ancient excavations, and natural karst features to better understand the surprisingly strange geomorphology and context of clay development. The ultimate goal being to understand the natural distribution of clay materials available to Mayan potters to better understand trade dynamics. Though short I left with a much greater understanding of the mysterious geomorphology with more work to be done. Highlights were not getting chichen rashes (from a posion oak-like tree), exciting afternoon thunderstorms, and a VIP tour of Chichen Itza.
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