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Mapping Past Societies (MAPS)

MAPS is a vast geodatabase with visual, geospatial and analytical capabilities. A free digital atlas of past societies available on desktop and mobile devices, it expands the way the world understands history, allowing us all to make decisions informed by humanity’s past experiences about present issues such as economic development, pandemics, climate change, religious change, migration, and the growth of societies worldwide, all represented in our map layers. The power of a map to convey information instantly is not matched easily by traditional presentations of large datasets. 

Having met ten years of milestones in the creation of an entirely new, freely available infrastructure for displaying complex scholarly data to the general public, we are now leveraging the latest Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology to make our online platform even more user- friendly and powerful, even as we reach new, larger audiences and expand our content and its chronological and geographical scope.