Early Copán Acropolis Program 2000 Field Season

Conclusion

The 2000 field season marked the final year of the FAMSI grant supporting Phase II of the ECAP research project at Copán, Honduras. Over a period of some 8 months FAMSI Grant 99102 provided essential support for the documentation, conservation, and analysis of recovered archaeological materials recovered by ECAP.  As has been described here, critical progress has been made towards completing work in all three of these areas. In some of these areas work will continue on a reduced basis supported by funds from the University of Pennsylvania Museum to ensure that ECAP’s obligations to both Honduras and the scientific community are completed.

In the area of conservation, current plans call for ECAP to continue tunnel consolidation over the project’s final field seasons (2001-2003), and to complete its artifact conservation effort with the 2001 field season. The basic goals for the documentation of all material remains were completed during the 2000 field season, although supplemental documentation will continue during the final phases of analyses during the next several years. Finally, in 2000 considerable progress was made in the analyses of all categories of archaeological materials. With continuing efforts aimed at identifying and sourcing construction materials and activity residues, identifying archaeobotanical and faunal remains, and classifying and sourcing pottery, it is fully expected that these and related analyses will be completed by the end of ECAP’s current IHAH convenio in 2003.

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