M[O]re than a quarter century ago, Linda Schele, observing that there was no settlement map of Palenque, set out with Alfonso Morales to begin the process with a comprehensive sketch map. Hers was the first published report on the settlement outside the monumental core area (L. Schele, 1981, Sacred Site and World View at Palenque. In Dumbarton Oaks Conference on Mesoamerican Sites and World Views, edited by Elizabeth P. Benson, pp. 87­117. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C.).