Boxing Day: a Maya polychrome pot from southern Belize
The notion of ancient Maya ritual combat, beyond the well-known rubber-ball game played across Mesoamerica, was proposed 40 years ago on the basis of a polychrome vase from southern Belize and a series of Late Classic (AD 700–850) pottery figurines depicting similarly accoutred individuals, found at...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Antiquity 2017-02, Vol.91 (355), p.1A-7A, Article e6 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | The notion of ancient Maya ritual combat, beyond the well-known rubber-ball game played across Mesoamerica, was proposed 40 years ago on the basis of a polychrome vase from southern Belize and a series of Late Classic (AD 700–850) pottery figurines depicting similarly accoutred individuals, found at the site of Lubaantun (Hammond 1976: figs 4–6). |
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| ISSN: | 0003-598X 1745-1744 |
| DOI: | 10.15184/aqy.2016.223 |