Economic Foundations of Mayapán Project: Results of the 2001 Season

Survey Outside the City Walls

Additional work in the form of reconnaissance transects beyond the city wall determined that Mayapán’s settlement continues for at least one kilometer outside of the wall to the east, west, and south, although structure density decreases with distance from the walls (Figure 26). These reconnaissance efforts imply that the city could be much larger (perhaps 30%) than currently documented. However, the chronology of structures outside of the walls is not known. The one milpa (#8) outside of the wall that we mapped and surface collected had a substantial portion of Late Preclassic ceramics and it may predate the Postclassic city. In two directions (south and west), temple cenote complexes were identified beyond a distance of 1km from the wall (after a settlement dropoff) which may represent satellite communities of Mayapán.

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