| Description |
1 online resource (xxvii, 494 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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, Suchitepequez, 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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Chocolate -- Guatemala -- Suchitepéquez -- History.
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Chocolate. |
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Guatemala -- Suchitepéquez. |
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History. |
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Archaeology -- Guatemala -- Suchitepéquez.
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Archaeology. |
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Water-supply -- Guatemala -- Suchitepéquez -- History.
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Water-supply. |
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Mayas -- Guatemala -- Suchitepéquez -- History.
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Mayas. |
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Suchitepéquez (Guatemala) -- Antiquities.
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Suchitepéquez (Guatemala) -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Chase, Arlen F. (Arlen Frank), 1953- writer of foreword.
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Chase, Diane Z., writer of foreword.
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Paredes-Umaña, Federico, author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kaplan, Jonathan H., 1947- Water, cacao, and the early Maya of Chocolá. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2018 525 pages 9780813056746 (DLC) 2017042170 |
| ISBN |
9781608332052 (electronic book) |
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1608332055 (electronic book) |
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9780813052205 (electronic book) |
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0813052203 (electronic book) |
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9780813056746 |
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0813056748 |
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