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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
[2018]
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| Series: | Maya studies.
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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.