Nicholas Puente (Archaeology, PhD Candidate) awarded an Exploration Fund Grant & A Ralph Stone Graduate Fellowship.
Exploration Fund Grant by the Explorers Club. The grant will support the investigation of ancient cave use by Maya peoples at the archaeological site of Punta Laguna, Yucatan, Mexico.
Ralph Stone Graduate Fellowship from the National Speleological Society. 听The funds will support a feasability study to test whether speleothems, a term for cave formations, found in Postclassic period Maya architecture can be sourced to their cave of origin using chemical analyses.