Ballgames and Ballcourts in Prehispanic Mesoamerica

A bibliography

£29.00
Author:
Eric Taladoire
Publication Year:
2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407309217
Paperback:
108pp
Sub-series name:
Paris Monographs in American Archaeology, 29
ISBN 10:
1407309218
BAR number:
S2338
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Description

BOOK DESCRIPTION
As exemplified in this bibliographical essay, that includes about 2000 references, prehispanic ball courts and ballgames in Mesoamerica have been the focus of numerous studies, while the discovery of ball courts and related artifacts is continuous. In the last few weeks before completing this work, the author received information concerning two new discoveries - a newly recognized panel depicting a ballgame at the Maya site of Quirigua (Guatemala), and a third ball court within the Tenochtitlan sacred precinct under the National Palace in Mexico. 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.