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Judi Lynn

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Tue Dec 10, 2019, 01:49 PM Dec 2019

Photos: Carvings Depict Maya Ballplayers in Action


By Laura Geggel September 29, 2017



(Image credit: Photo by Christopher R. Andres; Copyright Antiquity)

Two large stone carvings, each the size of a breakfast table, depict an incredible action scene: Maya ballplayers lunging forward, wearing distinctive ballplayer belts.

Archaeologists discovered these two limestone monuments in Tipan Chen Uitz in 2015, just six years after locals showed them the remains of the enormous Maya polity, which had previously been undocumented by modern archaeologists.

The stone panels reinforce the ballgame's importance to the Maya, and details within them suggest that Tipan was connected with other, larger Maya sites when it was populated hundreds of years ago, the researchers said. [Read the full story about the Maya ballplayer panels]



(Image credit: Copyright Antiquity)

Archaeologists learned about Tipan Chen Uitz from locals in Belize who showed them the site in 2009.

"We were taken to the site, and lo and behold, it greatly exceeded our expectations," said study senior researcher Christopher Andres, an adjunct research associate at Michigan State University who specializes in Maya archaeology. "It's a very large site, a major Maya political center."

More:
https://www.livescience.com/60557-photos-maya-ballplayers-tipan.html

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Photos: Carvings Depict Maya Ballplayers in Action (Original Post) Judi Lynn Dec 2019 OP
Wow Bayard Dec 2019 #1

Bayard

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Tue Dec 10, 2019, 03:35 PM
Dec 2019

Looking at the other photos, its hard to imagine finding this. Although it does say the natives helped.

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