Augustus Ledyard Smith III (October 18, 1901 – December 5, 1985) was an American archaeologist who worked on various projects in the Maya region on behalf of the Carnegie Institution, including Uaxactun.
[1] From 1958 to 1963 he led investigations at Altar de Sacrificios in Guatemala together with Gordon Willey on behalf of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
Ledyard Smith was born on October 18, 1901, in Milwaukee, and died of a heart attack on December 5, 1985, in Needham, Massachusetts.
[6] He took part in field research in the Maya region in the 1920s and 1930s at Uaxactun in the Petén Department of Guatemala.
In 1950 he started work with the Carnegie archaeologists excavating at Mayapan in the Mexican state of Yucatán.