# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/anabel-ford
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:00:50.742Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/anabel-ford"
name: "Anabel Ford"
slug: "anabel-ford"
description: "Anabel Ford is an American archaeologist specializing in the study of Mesoamerica, with a focus on the lowland Maya of Belize and Guatemala. She is recognized for her discovery of the ancient Maya city of El Pilar. Ford is currently affiliated with the Institute of Social Behavioral and Economic Research (ISBER) and is the director of the MesoAmerican Research Center (MARC) at the University of California, Santa Barbara."
tagline: "Archaeologist from the United States specializing in Mayan culture, also discovered the El Pilar site"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Anabel_Ford_2023_(profile).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1951-12-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.48
  momentum:             1.03448275862069
  historical:           5.670770666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabel_Ford"
    title: "Anabel Ford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%84_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "أنابل فورد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%84_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "انابل فورد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%2C_%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C"
    title: "Форд, Анабель"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabel_Ford"
    title: "Anabel Ford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabel_Ford"
    title: "Anabel Ford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21037366"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump