Water, cacao, and the early Maya of Chocolá /

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 r...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kaplan, Jonathan H., 1947- (Author), Paredes-Umaña, Federico (Author)
Other Authors: Chase, Diane Z. (author of foreword.), Chase, Arlen F. (Arlen Frank), 1953- (author of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2018]
Series:Maya studies.
Subjects:
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, 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.