The Mayan Long Count Calendar

Thomas Chanier (1)

1 L2MP - Laboratoire matériaux et microélectronique de Provence

The Maya had a very elaborate and accurate calendar. First, the Mayan Long Count Calendar (LCC) was used to point historical events from a selected "beginning of time". It is also characterized by the existence of a religious month Tzolk'in of 260 days and a civic year Haab' of 365 days. The LCC is supposed to begin on 11 August -3113 BC known as the Goodman-Martinez-Thompson (GMT) correlation to the Gregorian calendar based on historical facts and end on 21 December 2012 corresponding to a period of approximately 5125 years. We will explain here the origin of this cycle.

Mots clés: Maya calendar long count

Domaines: Histoire et perspectives sur les mathématiques [math.HO]

Thomas Chanier. The Mayan Long Count Calendar. 2013. ⟨hal-00750006v2⟩