Water, Cacao, and the Early Maya of Chocolá

by Jonathan Kaplan and Jonathan Kaplan

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813056748
• ISBN13: 9780813056746
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 524 Pages
• Weight: 2.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"