Nim Li Punit - Discovery and Excavation

Discovery and Excavation

Nim Li Punit was discovered in 1976 with initial explorations conducted by Norman Hammond of the British Museum-Cambridge University. Hammond produced the first site map and excavated a portion of the central plaza. Next Barbara McLeod of the University of Texas, Austin, produced the first detailed analyses of stelae inscriptions. In 1983 Richard Levanthal bored test pits and surveyed the site as part of an overall southern Belize Mayan mapping exercise. In the 1990s minor excavations were conducted by the Belize Department of Archaeology under the supervision of John Morris and Juan Luis Bonor.