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Water, Cacao, and the Early Maya of Chocola (Hardcover)
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Water, Cacao, and the Early Maya of Chocola (Hardcover)
Series: Maya Studies
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This exciting book brings the often-overlooked southern Maya region
of Guatemala into the spotlight by closely examining the ""lost
city"" of Chocola. Jonathan Kaplan and Federico Paredes Umana prove
that Chocola was a major Maya polity and reveal exactly why it was
so influential. In their fieldwork at the site, Kaplan and Paredes
Umana discovered an extraordinarily sophisticated underground
water-control system. They also discovered cacao residues in
ceramic vessels. Based on these and other findings, the authors
believe that cacao was consumed and grown intensively at Chocola
and that the city was the center of a large cacao trade. They
contend that the city's wealth and power were built on its abundant
supply of water and its command of cacao, which was significant not
just to cuisine and trade but also to Maya ideology and cosmology.
Moreover, Kaplan and Paredes Umana detail the ancient city's
ceramics and add over thirty stone sculptures to the site's
inventory. Because the southern Maya region was likely the origin
of Maya hieroglyphic writing and the Long Count calendar, scholars
have long suspected the area to be important. This pioneering field
research at Chocola helps explain how and why the region played a
leading role in the rise of the Maya civilization.
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