By Dale Walters, author of Chocolate Crisis: Climate Change and Other Threats to the Future of Cacao This book is available at a discount price through June 30, 2021. Order here and use code FNPS21 at checkout. How a childhood spent among cacao trees inspired my passion for plant pathology It is funny what you remember from … Continue reading A Childhood among Cacao Trees
Chocolate Crisis
“This book covers a vast range of topics about the plant, the farmers that grow it, the challenges they face, and its role in history and in the world economy. A lifetime or two of experience on the cacao trail is captured here.”—Mark J. Guiltinan, Pennsylvania State University Chocolate is the center of a massive … Continue reading Chocolate Crisis
Behind the Scenes at a Maya Archaeological Site
The near-legendary ancient city of Chocolá in Guatemala is the subject of a new book by archaeologists Jonathan Kaplan and Federico Paredes Umaña: Water, Cacao, and the Early Maya of Chocolá. Based on extensive fieldwork by the authors, this book offers evidence that the city was innovative and influential early in the development of Maya … Continue reading Behind the Scenes at a Maya Archaeological Site
Water, Cacao, and the Early Maya of Chocolá
“The site of Chocolá is extremely important for the study of the rise and development of civilization in southern Mesoamerica. This book represents the first systematic description and analysis of this center and is a significant contribution to Mesoamerican archaeology.”—Takeshi Inomata, coeditor of Mesoamerican Plazas: Arenas of Community and Power “Kaplan and Paredes Umaña leave no … Continue reading Water, Cacao, and the Early Maya of Chocolá
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