Past Event
Thursday, September 30, 2021, 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Living Room Lecture: Raise a Cup of Foaming Cacao
All over the world from, San Diego
Living Room Lecture - Raise a Cup of Foaming Cacao: Interaction Between Mesoamerica & South America: In this San Diego Archaeological Center presentation, Dr. Jonathan J. Dubois will focus on cacao and the iconography associated with it in the Ancient Americas. Most of our knowledge about the practice of rituals involving the consumption of fermented cacao beverages comes from Mesoamerican ethnohistory and Classic Period (300-900 CE) iconography and epigraphy. Recent studies have demonstrated that cacao was likely domesticated in Northwestern South America at least a millennium before it came into use farther north. This event will be held on Zoom. Cost: Pay what you wish.