Book
Ball courts and ceremonial plazas in the West Indies
Dept. Anthropology, Yale University • (79) • Published In 1983 • Pages: ix, 185
By: Alegria, Ricardo E..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of the BATEYS or prehistoric ball courts and associated ceremonial plazas dispersed throughout the West Indies and into South America, Mesoamerica, and the Southwestern United States. These courts were used in conjunction with the game played with a rubber ball by the Taino Indians of the Greater Antilles which had a wide distribution in the area of study. The major focus of the work is on Puerto Rico, Hispaniola (the Dominican Republic and Haiti), and Cuba. The author names and locates each of the ball court sites, describes briefly the outstanding features of each, and where possible, examines the previous archaeological work previously completed at each of these locations.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Comparative evidence
- Ceramic technology
- Lithic industries
- Recreational structures
- Athletic sports
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Late Caribbean
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Caribbean
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- 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; 1998
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1949-1950s
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1000 BP-500 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- West Indies
- NotesAdditional notes
- Ricardo E. Alegria
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-165)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 88214363
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Caribbean Area--Antiquities