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|Year=-1500 | |Year=-1500 | ||
|Year Suffix=c | |Year Suffix=c | ||
|Is in main chronology= | |Headline=Mexican Game Believed to Use Rubber Ball, Bat | ||
|Text=<p>According to SABR member | |Is in main chronology=Yes | ||
<p>Email from | |Text=<p>According to SABR member César González, "There are remains of rubber balls found since the time of the Olmeca culture between 1500 and 700 BC." He reports that it is believed that one of the earliest Mesoamerican games was played with a stick. A dozen rubber balls dating to 1600 BCE or earlier have been found in <span style="text-decoration: underline;">El Manatí</span>, an Olmec sacrificial <span style="text-decoration: underline;">bog</span> 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) east of San Lorenzo Tenochtitlan. [Haslip-Viera, Gabriel: Bernard Ortiz de Montellano; Warren Barbour Source "Robbing Native American Cultures: Van Sertima's Afrocentricity and the Olmecs," <em>Current Anthropology</em>, Vol. 38, No. 3, (Tun., 1997), pp. 419-441]</p> | ||
<p>Email from César González, 12/6/2008 <strong>Note:</strong> Can we add sources for these points?</p> | |||
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| Text | According to SABR member César González, "There are remains of rubber balls found since the time of the Olmeca culture between 1500 and 700 BC." He reports that it is believed that one of the earliest Mesoamerican games was played with a stick. A dozen rubber balls dating to 1600 BCE or earlier have been found in El Manatí, an Olmec sacrificial bog 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) east of San Lorenzo Tenochtitlan. [Haslip-Viera, Gabriel: Bernard Ortiz de Montellano; Warren Barbour Source "Robbing Native American Cultures: Van Sertima's Afrocentricity and the Olmecs," Current Anthropology, Vol. 38, No. 3, (Tun., 1997), pp. 419-441] Email from César González, 12/6/2008 Note: Can we add sources for these points? |
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