Water, Cacao, and the Early Maya of Chocola' / Jonathan Kaplan and Federico Paredes Umaña ; Foreword by Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase.
Material type: TextPublication details: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2018.Description: 1 online resource (xxvii, 494 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781608332052
- 1608332055
- 9780813052205
- 0813052203
- Chocolate -- Guatemala -- Suchitepéquez -- History
- Archaeology -- Guatemala -- Suchitepéquez
- Water-supply -- Guatemala -- Suchitepéquez -- History
- Mayas -- Guatemala -- Suchitepéquez -- History
- Suchitepéquez (Guatemala) -- Antiquities
- Suchitepéquez (Guatemala) -- History
- Chocolat -- Guatemala -- Suchitepéquez -- Histoire
- Archéologie -- Guatemala -- Suchitepéquez
- Eau -- Approvisionnement -- Guatemala -- Suchitepéquez -- Histoire
- Mayas -- Guatemala -- Suchitepéquez -- Histoire
- HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology
- Antiquities
- Archaeology
- Chocolate
- Mayas
- Water-supply
- Guatemala -- Suchitepéquez
- 972.81/65 23
- F1469.S92 K37 2018eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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 rise to wealth and power as a "kingdom of chocolate"; also detailed are the ancient city's sculpture and ceramics and the ethnohistory of the modern Maya community lying atop it
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