essay
Ball courts
Excavations at Snaketown, Harold S. Gladwin, Emil W. Haury, E. B. Sayles, Nora Gladwin • (25) • Published In 1965 • Pages: 36-49
By: Haury, Emil W. (Emil Walter).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Haury describes in this document the excavation of two ball courts, called 'Court 1' and :'Court 2', at the Snaktown archaeological site in southern Arizona. The author describes the construction of these courts, compares the two, and attempts to provide a chronological profile of their dates of construction based primarily on the evaluation of the sherds found in the earth fill of the courts. Comparisons are made throughout the text to the ball courts of Middle America. A brief summary is also given on how the ball game was played.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Recreational structures
- Archaeological excavation methods
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Hohokam
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; 2009
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1500-1100 BP (AD 500-900)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Snaketown, Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Emil W. Haury
- For bibliographical references see document 53:Gladwin
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 65023304
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hohokam culture
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Arizona--Snaketown
- Snaketown Site (Ariz.)