Name: The "Definitive" Map of Ancient Mayapan
Start: 2026-09-30T16:00:00-0400
End: 2026-09-30T17:00:00-0400

Wednesday September 30, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT

I present a new map of the ancient Mayan city of Mayapan and describe the process used from fieldwork in the forests of Mexico to the creation of a digital online map for scientific research. Mayapan is a preindustrial Mayan city founded in approximately AD 1220 and destroyed and abandoned around AD 1440. It was made famous, at least among archaeologists, in the 1950s with the publication of an amazing map of the entire walled portion of the city, drawn with tape and a compass.
In 2000, I began a long sequence of projects that gradually remapped the walled portion of the city and an additional 20 sq. km outside the defensive wall. The results include refining the accuracy of previously mapped features, locating thousands of new ruins, identifying a complex network of property walls and pathways cross-crossing the city, and hundreds of additional landscape features used by ancient people.
The work is not over, but the results are now available as an online database for scholars to study and explore an ancient Mayan urban society, better understand Postclassic Mayan people, and support and encourage a new generation of researchers to make new discoveries.

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Timothy Hare

Professor of Anthropology, Morehead State University

Timothy Hare has conducted archaeological and historical research in the northern Mayan lowlands of the Yucatan of Mexico for over 25 years. He specializes in mapping and analysis using geospatial technologies, including GIS, airborne and terrestrial laser scanning, photogrammetric... Read More →

Wednesday September 30, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
The Barrel Room 1375 South Broadway, Lexington, KY, USA

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