[Aztlan] Classic Maya Unit of Length

[David Hixson]

This is an excellent question.  I have read documents from the early colonial period, written in Maya, that measure land in units of "Mecates" (such as wills and land deeds).  This unit is still used today for measuring land area, and is translated as a 20 x 20 meter unit of space.  However, I do not know whether this is a truly Maya unit of measurement, or if it is something devised during the conquest to mitigate between the Old World and New World systems of measurement.
   
  -Dave

Lawrence Lo <lorentz at cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
  Estimados listeros,

I have a question. Does anybody know of what units of measuring length the
Classic Maya employed? And if so, do we know the conversion to modern
units?

Thank you!

Larry
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Ancient Scripts of the World

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