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Water, cacao, and the early Maya of Chocolá

Title
Water, cacao, and the early Maya of Chocolá / Jonathan Kaplan and Federico Paredes Umaña ; foreword by Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase.
Author
Kaplan, Jonathan H., 1947-
Publication
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2018]

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Additional Authors
  • Paredes-Umaña, Federico
  • Chase, Diane Z.
  • Chase, Arlen F. (Arlen Frank), 1953-
Description
xxvii, 494 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm.
Summary
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.
Series Statement
Maya studies
Uniform Title
Maya studies.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
List of figures -- List of tables -- Foreword -- Preface and acknowledgments -- Introduction and historical context -- Physical environment and cultural ecology -- Ethnohistory and history of the Southern Maya region, Suchitepéquez, 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 -- Appendix A. Chocolá Archaeobotanical Remains / Felipe Trabanino -- Appendix B. Global Positioning System Survey: Chocolá Archaeological Site / William Clay Poe -- Appendix C. Origin of Chocolá Obsidian from X-Ray Fluorescence / Julio Cesar Alvarado H., Guillermo Acosta Ochoa, Victor Garcia Gómez, Federico Paredes Umaña, and Jonathan Kaplan -- Appendix D. Radiocarbon Dates for Chocolá Operation 4 (North Sector) / Federico Paredes Umaña and Jonathan Kaplan -- Appendix E. Theobromine, Fatty Acids, and Carbohydrates in Ceramic Samples from Chocolá / Mauricio Obregón Cardona, Luis Barba Pingarrón, William J. Hurst, Eos López Pérez, Marielos Corado Mena, José Carlos Aldana, Lucía Cano, Jonathan Kaplan, and Federico Paredes Umaña.
Call Number
JFE 18-9276
ISBN
  • 9780813056746
  • 0813056748
LCCN
2017042170
OCLC
1004424772
Author
Kaplan, Jonathan H., 1947- author.
Title
Water, cacao, and the early Maya of Chocolá / Jonathan Kaplan and Federico Paredes Umaña ; foreword by Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase.
Publisher
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2018]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Maya studies
Maya studies.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Paredes-Umaña, Federico, author.
Chase, Diane Z., writer of foreword.
Chase, Arlen F. (Arlen Frank), 1953- writer of foreword.
Research Call Number
JFE 18-9276
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