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Metal Storage Boxes for Artifacts
The current stage of the project focuses on the artifact collections that are housed at Lamanai, particularly the improvement of storage conditions in order to preserve the cultural heritage of this important site for future generations and to make the collections more accessible. The tropical environment is hard on storage materials—many of which disintegrate over time—and we have reached a crisis with the old storage containers falling apart, and termites eating the wood shelves.
Since 2014, your donations, as well as personal contributions from some of the Lamanai team members, have enabled us to install some new metal shelving for the lab and for the old site museum, which houses and displays many of the 'whole' artifacts. We have also been able to get about 250 locally made galvanized "termite-proof", "mouse-proof", "weather-proof" zinc-boxes to store the artifacts (things like pottery sherds, obsidian, lithics, faunal remains, etc.). The cost of one metal storage box is $20 USD.
The steady disappearance of institutional funding in these economic times has left the Lamanai Archaeology Project,
like many other archaeological projects, in a very difficult situation. We have no funds to buy these boxes.
*UCL keeps donor's names confidential, so please be sure to let us know that you have donated so we can put your name on a box or boxes--contact us at e.graham@ucl.ac.uk.
What's in for you?
The Lamanai Archaeology Project strives to make Lamanai collections more accessible to a variety of people (including a better online presence) and to share freely and more widely the results of over 40 years of scientific research at the site.
With your help we can keep on studying, preserving and promoting Belize Cultural Heritage.
Via our website and social media we will endeavor ourselves to share our work.
The current stage of the project focuses on the artifact collections that are housed at Lamanai, particularly the improvement of storage conditions in order to preserve the cultural heritage of this important site for future generations and to make the collections more accessible. The tropical environment is hard on storage materials—many of which disintegrate over time—and we have reached a crisis with the old storage containers falling apart, and termites eating the wood shelves.
Since 2014, your donations, as well as personal contributions from some of the Lamanai team members, have enabled us to install some new metal shelving for the lab and for the old site museum, which houses and displays many of the 'whole' artifacts. We have also been able to get about 250 locally made galvanized "termite-proof", "mouse-proof", "weather-proof" zinc-boxes to store the artifacts (things like pottery sherds, obsidian, lithics, faunal remains, etc.). The cost of one metal storage box is $20 USD.
The steady disappearance of institutional funding in these economic times has left the Lamanai Archaeology Project,
like many other archaeological projects, in a very difficult situation. We have no funds to buy these boxes.
- With the assistance of University College London (UCL), we've set up an online giving page specific to the Lamanai Archaeology Project. The platform, maintained and secured by UCL, allows donations in a choice of 2 currencies: UK pounds sterling and US dollars. Donations are eligible for UK government Gift Aid programme and are tax-deductible for US tax-payers (UCL Friends and Alumni Association is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organisation). Click any of the buy a box buttons to donate.
*UCL keeps donor's names confidential, so please be sure to let us know that you have donated so we can put your name on a box or boxes--contact us at e.graham@ucl.ac.uk.
What's in for you?
The Lamanai Archaeology Project strives to make Lamanai collections more accessible to a variety of people (including a better online presence) and to share freely and more widely the results of over 40 years of scientific research at the site.
With your help we can keep on studying, preserving and promoting Belize Cultural Heritage.
Via our website and social media we will endeavor ourselves to share our work.
2016-2018 FIELD SEASONS ARTIFACT REHOUSING: ARCHAEOLOGISTS AND STUDENTS SPENT TWO MONTHS WORKING WITH LIZ GRAHAM AND DAVID PENDERGAST TO SORT AND REHOUSE THE ARTIFACTS FROM ALL LAMANAI EXCAVATIONS. See photos under the Fieldwork tab.
2015 FIELD SEASON ARTIFACT STORAGE IMPROVEMENTS: NEW METAL SHELVING INSTALLED IN THE 'OLD' LAMANAI SITE MUSEUM. UCL STUDENTS CLEAN ARTIFACTS AND RECONSTRUCT POTTERY.
2015 FIELD SEASON ARTIFACT STORAGE IMPROVEMENTS: NEW METAL SHELVING INSTALLED IN THE 'OLD' LAMANAI SITE MUSEUM. UCL STUDENTS CLEAN ARTIFACTS AND RECONSTRUCT POTTERY.
2014 ARTIFACT STORAGE IMPROVEMENTS
New termite-proof steel and aluminum shelves were installed in the north room of the Lamanai site bodega in June 2014 and zinc artifact storage boxes were purchased.
After the new shelves were installed, volunteers worked on rehousing some of the artifacts and the storage boxes were put back on the new shelves in the lab. As you can see, this room is already filled to capacity, and it is challenging for a large group of archaeologists to work in here, thus our need to build a larger bodega. This is just one room of the bodega--with your donations we hope to tackle the other rooms in future field seasons.
New termite-proof steel and aluminum shelves were installed in the north room of the Lamanai site bodega in June 2014 and zinc artifact storage boxes were purchased.
After the new shelves were installed, volunteers worked on rehousing some of the artifacts and the storage boxes were put back on the new shelves in the lab. As you can see, this room is already filled to capacity, and it is challenging for a large group of archaeologists to work in here, thus our need to build a larger bodega. This is just one room of the bodega--with your donations we hope to tackle the other rooms in future field seasons.
Photo Header at Top of Page: The Mask Temple
Photo Left: The Lamanai High Temple. Residents from the local village of Indian Church can be seen on the structure here, when they took a Cultural Heritage class conducted by Lamanai archaeologists and learned about the Lamanai site they live near.
Check back soon for more updates to this website.
Photo Left: The Lamanai High Temple. Residents from the local village of Indian Church can be seen on the structure here, when they took a Cultural Heritage class conducted by Lamanai archaeologists and learned about the Lamanai site they live near.
Check back soon for more updates to this website.