- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (xxvii, 494 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- 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
- Water, cacao, and the early Maya of Chocolá (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Water, cacao, and the early Maya of Chocolá (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-472) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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, 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.
- LCCN
- 2017042170
- OCLC
- ssj0002009098
- Author
Kaplan, Jonathan H., 1947-
- Title
Water, cacao, and the early Maya of Chocolá [electronic resource] / Jonathan Kaplan and Federico Paredes Umaña ; Foreword by Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase.
- Imprint
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2018]
- Series
Maya studies
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-472) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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- Added Author
Paredes-Umaña, Federico.
Chase, Arlen F. (Arlen Frank), 1953-
Chase, Diane Z.