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Mesoamerican Ball Game
Descriptive Essay # 13080
Mesoamerican Ball Game
Describes sport, geography, ball court, types, equipment, purposes (religious, social, recreational), feasting.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages) |
13 sources |
1997
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" The Mesoamerican Ball GameIntroduction
The Mesoamerican ball game was played for recreational, sociopolitical, and religious reasons. The ball game held a central, primary part in the lives of Mesoamerican people. It was played across a wide geographic area by many different peoples. The ball courts began emerging in the Maya lowlands, at the end of the Middle Formative period (Ashmore 496). There is much, about the ball game, which is only theorized or speculated. The archeological evidence concerning the ball game is limited to the location and design of the ball courts, a few pieces of artifacts found in refuse piles, the contents of caches (when they have been recorded), art work depicting the game in progress, and ethnographic accounts. From these sources of.."
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