Use Of Chocolate In Classic Maya Society

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Title

Use Of Chocolate In Classic Maya Society

Description

This project will examine the creation and use of chocolate in Classic Period (250-900 CE) Maya society. The Maya were a Mesoamerican cultural group who controlled parts of Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Belize, the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, and other areas of Mexico. The Classic Period Maya elites used cacao as a beverage in socio-political ceremonies. Chocolate began as, and has remained, an important symbolic and metaphorical object in the Maya belief system. We have learned that cacao was an esteemed beverage for the Maya through artifacts, iconography, hieroglyphic texts, and chemical analysis of ceramics found in a Maya setting. Understanding the use of cacao in the Classic Period can help us understand its importance in the modern world.

James Stemp

Stephen Lucey

Contributor

Keene State College

Creator

Ella Noyes

Date

2015-04-11

Identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12088/7562

Language

en_US

Type

Presentation

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Item sets

AEC 2015 ISP

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