Goodman–Martínez–Thompson correlation

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The Goodman–Martínez–Thompson correlation is the most widely accepted scholarly conversion formula that aligns dates in the ancient Maya Long Count calendar with the Gregorian calendar.

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instanceOf Maya calendar correlation
chronological correlation
alsoKnownAs GMT correlation
Goodman–Martínez–Thompson correlation
surface form: Goodman correlation

Goodman–Martínez–Thompson correlation
surface form: Goodman-Martinez-Thompson correlation
appliesTo Gregorian calendar (Western churches)
surface form: Gregorian calendar

Mesoamerican Long Count calendar
surface form: Maya Long Count calendar
basedOn Venus observations in the Dresden Codex
astronomical data in Maya inscriptions
eclipse records in Maya texts
historical records of colonial-period Maya dates
competesWith Lounsbury correlation
Spinden correlation
other proposed Maya-Gregorian correlations
definesEpoch Maya Long Count 0.0.0.0.0 = Julian day number 584283
developedBy J. Eric S. Thompson
Joseph Goodman
Juan Martínez Hernández
fieldOfUse Mesoamerican studies
archaeoastronomy
chronology
epigraphy
hasCorrelationConstant 584283
hasKeyAssumption accuracy of astronomical identifications in Maya texts
continuity between pre-Columbian and colonial Maya calendrical practice
hasUncertainty disagreement of a few days among different GMT variants
hasVariantConstant 584285
584286
isMostWidelyAcceptedBy Maya calendar scholars
Maya epigraphers
Mesoamerican archaeologists
mapsToGregorianDate Maya Long Count 0.0.0.0.0 = 11 August 3114 BCE (proleptic Gregorian, GMT 584283)
Maya Long Count 13.0.0.0.0 = 21 December 2012 (Gregorian, GMT 584283)
namedAfter J. Eric S. Thompson
Joseph Goodman
Juan Martínez Hernández
supportedBy correspondence between Venus tables and modern astronomy
correspondence between recorded eclipses and calculated eclipses
timePeriodOfDevelopment late 19th century
timePeriodOfRefinement early 20th century
usedFor aligning Maya Long Count dates with the Gregorian calendar
conversion between Maya Long Count and Western calendar dates
usedIn chronologies of Maya archaeology
conversion tables for Maya calendar dates
dating of Classic Maya inscriptions
interpretation of Maya historical events

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Long Count calendar hasCorrelationConstant Goodman–Martínez–Thompson correlation
Goodman–Martínez–Thompson correlation alsoKnownAs Goodman–Martínez–Thompson correlation
this entity surface form: Goodman-Martinez-Thompson correlation
Goodman–Martínez–Thompson correlation alsoKnownAs Goodman–Martínez–Thompson correlation
this entity surface form: Goodman correlation
Lounsbury correlation alternativeTo Goodman–Martínez–Thompson correlation
Lounsbury correlation comparedWith Goodman–Martínez–Thompson correlation