Description |
1 online resource (xxvii, 494 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Chocolate -- Guatemala -- Suchitepéquez -- History
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Archaeology -- Guatemala -- Suchitepéquez
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Water-supply -- Guatemala -- Suchitepéquez -- History
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Mayas -- Guatemala -- Suchitepéquez -- History
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
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Antiquities
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Archaeology
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Chocolate
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Mayas
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Water-supply
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SUBJECT |
Suchitepéquez (Guatemala) -- Antiquities
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Suchitepéquez (Guatemala) -- History
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Subject |
Guatemala -- Suchitepéquez
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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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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ISBN |
9781608332052 |
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1608332055 |
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9780813052205 |
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0813052203 |
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