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Water, Cacao, and the Early Maya of Chocolá /

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...

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Autores principales: Kaplan, Jonathan H., 1947- (Autor), Paredes-Umaña, Federico (Autor)
Otros Autores: Chase, Diane Z. (writer of foreword.), Chase, Arlen F. (Arlen Frank), 1953- (writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2018.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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