Water, Cacao, and the Early Maya of Chocola'

Water, Cacao, and the Early Maya of Chocola' /

In describing what was, in effect, a lost Maya city, the book highlights the many important research findings to date of long-term field research at the city, including a very early, yet extraordinarily sophisticated ancient water control system, and evidence for cacao arboriculture, to explain its...

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Main Authors: Kaplan, Jonathan H., 1947- (Author), Paredes-Umaña, Federico (Author)
Other Authors: Chase, Arlen F. (Arlen Frank), 1953- (writer of foreword.), Chase, Diane Z. (writer of foreword.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2018
Subjects:
Chocolate > Guatemala > Suchitepéquez > History.
Archaeology > Guatemala > Suchitepéquez.
Water-supply > Guatemala > Suchitepéquez > History.
Mayas > Guatemala > Suchitepéquez > History.
Suchitepéquez (Guatemala) > Antiquities.
Suchitepéquez (Guatemala) > History.
Electronic books.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • List of tables
  • Foreword
  • Preface and acknowledgments
  • Introduction and historical context
  • Physical environment and cultural ecology
  • Ethnohistory and history of the Southern Maya region, Suchitepequez, and Chocolá
  • Archaeological operations in mounds, plazas and features
  • The ceramics of Chocolá
  • The monuments of Chocolá, and nearby
  • Materialist factors: water and cacao at Chocolá
  • Conclusions.

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