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<p> </p> <p>Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/jasrep</p> <p>Patrick Wertmann, et al. "New Evidence for Ball Games in Eurasia from ca. 3000-Year-Old Yanghai Tombs in the Turfan Depression of Northwest China," </p> <p> </p> <p>The researchers found specimens of curved sticks at the same burial sites. Their thought about the game that may have used the balls: </p> <p>"The approved old age of the Yanghai balls in combination with horse-riding equipment and curved wooden sticks, reported from the same archaeological site got scientific and public attention and raised a discussion on whether these finds could be the oldest evidence for stick- and-ball games such as polo in China and Eurasia. Our study supports the antiquity of the Yanghai balls, but the available data in hand is not enough to answer the question of how these balls were played." </p>
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