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Water, cacao, and the early Maya of Chocolá / Jonathan Kaplan and Federico Paredes UmanÌa ; foreword by Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase.
Penn Museum Library F1469.S92 K37 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kaplan, Jonathan H., 1947- author.
- Paredes-UmanÌa, Federico, author.
- Chase, Diane Z., author of foreword.
- Chase, Arlen F. (Arlen Frank), 1953- author of foreword.
- Series:
- Maya studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chocolate.
- History.
- Archaeology.
- Water-supply.
- Mayas.
- Suchitepéquez (Guatemala)--History.
- Suchitepéquez (Guatemala).
- Suchitepéquez (Guatemala)--Antiquities.
- Guatemala--Suchitepéquez.
- Guatemala.
- SuchitepeÌquez (Guatemala)--History.
- SuchitepeÌquez (Guatemala).
- SuchitepeÌquez (Guatemala)--Antiquities.
- SuchitepeÌquez.
- Mayas--Guatemala--SuchitepeÌquez--History.
- Water-supply--Guatemala--SuchitepeÌquez--History.
- Archaeology--Guatemala--SuchitepeÌquez.
- Chocolate--Guatemala--SuchitepeÌquez--History.
- Antiquities.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxvii, 494 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2018]
- 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.
- 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, SuchitepeÌquez, and ChocolaÌ
- Archaeological operations in mounds, plazas and features
- The ceramics of ChocolaÌ
- The monuments of ChocolaÌ, and nearby
- Materialist factors: water and cacao at ChocolaÌ
- Conclusions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780813056746
- 0813056748
- OCLC:
- 1004424772
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