Ball court design dates back 3,400 years

Warren D. Hill (), Michael Blake and John E. Clark
Additional contact information
Warren D. Hill: University of British Columbia
Michael Blake: University of British Columbia
John E. Clark: Brigham Young University

Nature, 1998, vol. 392, issue 6679, 878-879

Abstract: Abstract Excavations at the archaeological site of Paso de la Amada, in the Soconusco region of Pacific coastal Chiapas, Mexico, have uncovered an earthen ball court dating to approximately 1400 BC (uncalibrated),which is at least five centuries older than any previously excavated ballcourt in Mesoamerica1. Moreover, this discovery reveals that the design of ball courts dates back 3,400 years.

Date: 1998
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.nature.com/articles/31837 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nat:nature:v:392:y:1998:i:6679:d:10.1038_31837

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.nature.com/

DOI: 10.1038/31837

Access Statistics for this article

Nature is currently edited by Magdalena Skipper

More articles in Nature from Nature
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().