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Ballgame Ritual: Authority and its Transformation during Late Classic Collapse (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Marcie Venter. Lourdes Budar. Philip J. Arnold III.

One of the characteristic features of the Classic Veracruz style complex is ballgame imagery on ballcourt panels, molded ceramic vessels, paraphernalia such as yokes, hachas and palmas, not to mention the presence of courts, markers, and stelae or other monuments. Various components of the Classic Veracruz style have been documented throughout the Gulf lowlands and adjoining regions of Mesoamerica. Few examples, however, derive from stratigraphic excavations of in situ deposits. In this...