
Cover image: Jar from a fifth-century elite Maya tomb at Río Azul, Guatemala. Identified in the hieroglyphic text as a cacao-serving vessel, the jar contains traces of theobromine, the fingerprint compound for cacao. The article by Henderson et al. on pages 18937–18940 reports theobromine in much earlier Honduran pottery, pushing back the earliest known cacao use to before 1100 B.C. Collection of the Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, Guatemala City, Guatemala. Image courtesy of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.