The Mesoamerican ballgame was a sport that combined elements of soccer, basketball, American football, and human sacrifice.

This new collection of essays brings together research from field archaeology, mythology, and Maya hieroglyphic studies to illuminate this important yet puzzling aspect of Native American culture.

Catalogus van een tentoonstelling over het balspel dat in de vóór-Spaanse tijd in heel Mexico en aangrenzende gebieden werd gespeeld.

They also offer many mysteries and enigmas to modern understanding. These are the things that make people wonder about how the civilisations arose, gained such power, and why they disappeared.

В очерке авторы попытались дать читателям общее представление об игре в мяч, своеобразном явлении, порожденном индейскими ...

These are just two of the most recent additions to a long list of bibliographical references, on a very controversial theme, that characterizes Mesoamerica and other related areas.

... called Coatépec (Snake Mountain), where they built a temple on top of a mountain with a ballcourt at its base and a nearby pit called “skull place” (Schele and Guernsey Kappelman 2001:31). Symbolically, the ballgame reenacts creation ...

... called Coatetelco . It was probably spared by the Spaniards because it was a relatively minor city . Durán laments ... ballgame and sent Native ballplayers to Spain to entertain the king . As in other Aztec traditions , there has been a ...