Ball Court (Site Type Keyword)

Parent: Non-Domestic Structures

An unroofed structure associated with the playing of the Mesoamerican ball game, found in the American southwest and parts of Mesoamerica.

476-500 (1,267 Records)

Early Pueblo III great house Room 19 overviews (1998)
IMAGE Gary Brown. Joel Gamache.

Aztec West, Sector 1, Room 19 overviews (room photographed in 1998 by Art Ireland prior to backfilling). Early PIII one-story room added to south East Wing of West Ruin(see Morris 1928). Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 19_1A: South interior wall overview copied from IMG0088; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 19_1B: South interior wall SW oblique copied from IMG0090; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 19_1C: East interior wall SE oblique overview copied from IMG0073; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 19_1D: North interior wall overview...


Early Pueblo III great house Room 20 overviews (1998)
IMAGE Gary Brown. Joel Gamache.

Aztec West, Sector 1, Room 20 overviews (room photographed in 1998 by Art Ireland prior to backfilling). Early PIII one-story room added to south East Wing of West Ruin(see Morris 1928). Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 20_1A: South interior wall overview copied from IMG0095; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 20_1B: East interior wall SE oblique copied from IMG0101; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 20_1C: East interior wall NE oblique overview copied from IMG0100; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 20_1D: North interior wall NE oblique...


Early Pueblo III great house Room 22 overviews (1998)
IMAGE Gary Brown. Joel Gamache.

Aztec West, Sector 1, Room 22 overviews (room photographed in 1998 by Art Ireland prior to backfilling). Early PIII one-story room added to south East Wing of West Ruin(see Morris 1928). Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 22_1A: North interior wall NW oblique copied from IMG0085; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 22_1B: West interior wall NW oblique copied from IMG0080; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 22_1C: West wall cap copied from IMG0079. Reference: Earl Morris, 1928, Notes on Excavations in the Aztec Ruin, Volume...


Early Pueblo III great house Room 23 overviews (1998)
IMAGE Gary Brown. Joel Gamache.

Aztec West, Sector 1, Room 23 overviews (room photographed in 1998 by Art Ireland prior to backfilling). Early PIII one-story room added to south East Wing of West Ruin(see Morris 1928). Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 23_1A: East interior wall NE oblique copied from IMG0048; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 23_1B: North interior wall NW oblique copied from IMG0044. Reference: Earl Morris, 1928, Notes on Excavations in the Aztec Ruin, Volume XXVI, Part V, Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of...


Early Pueblo III great house Room 24 overviews (1998)
IMAGE Gary Brown. Joel Gamache.

Aztec West, Sector 1, Room 24 overviews (room photographed in 1998 by Art Ireland prior to backfilling). Early PIII one-story room added to south East Wing of West Ruin(see Morris 1928). Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 24_1A: South interior wall SE oblique copied from IMG0057; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 24_1B: South interior wall SW oblique copied from IMG0055; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 24_1C: South exterior wall NE oblique copied from IMG0035; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 24_1D: South exterior wall NW oblique...


Early Pueblo III great house Room 25 overviews (1998)
IMAGE Gary Brown. Joel Gamache.

Aztec West, Sector 1, Room 25 overviews (room photographed in 1998 by Art Ireland prior to backfilling). Early PIII one-story room added to south East Wing of West Ruin(see Morris 1928). Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 25_1A: South interior wall SW oblique copied from IMG0046; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 25_1B: South interior wall SE oblique copied from IMG0048; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 25_1C: South exterior wall NW oblique copied from IMG0034; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 25_1D: South exterior wall NE oblique...


Early Pueblo III great house Room 26 overviews (1998)
IMAGE Gary Brown. Joel Gamache.

Aztec West, Sector 1, Room 26 overviews (room photographed in 1998 by Art Ireland prior to backfilling). Early PIII one-story room added to south East Wing of West Ruin(see Morris 1928). Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 26_1A: South interior wall SE oblique copied from IMG0095; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 26_1B: South interior wall SW oblique copied from IMG0093; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 26_1C: South exterior wall NE oblique copied from IMG0031; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 26_1D: East interior wall SE oblique copied...


Early Pueblo III great house Room 27 feature overviews (1998)
IMAGE Gary Brown. Joel Gamache.

Aztec West, Sector 1, Room 27 feature overviews (room photographed in 1998 by Art Ireland prior to backfilling). Early PIII one-story room added to south East Wing of West Ruin(see Morris 1928). Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 27_2A: North jamb of east interior wall copied from IMG0039; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 27_2B: Close-up of east interior wall doorway copied from IMG0040; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 27_2C: South jamb of east interior wall copied from IMG0041; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 27_2D: South jamb of...


Early Pueblo III great house Room 27 overviews (1998)
IMAGE Gary Brown. Joel Gamache.

Aztec West, Sector 1, Room 27 overviews (room photographed in 1998 by Art Ireland prior to backfilling). Early PIII one-story room added to south East Wing of West Ruin(see Morris 1928). Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 27_1A: South interior wall SE oblique copied from IMG0092; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 27_1B: South interior wall SW oblique copied from IMG0090; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 27_1C: East interior wall SE oblique copied from IMG0084; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 27_1D: North interior wall NE oblique copied...


Early Pueblo III great house Room 28 overviews (1998)
IMAGE Gary Brown. Joel Gamache.

Aztec West, Sector 1, Room 28 overviews (room photographed in 1998 by Art Ireland prior to backfilling). Early PIII one-story room added to south East Wing of West Ruin(see Morris 1928). Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 28_1A: South interior wall overview copied from IMG0059; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 28_1B: East interior wall SE oblique copied from IMG0064; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 28_1C: East interior wall NE oblique copied from IMG0061; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 28_1D: North interior wall overview copied from...


Early Pueblo III great house Room 29 overviews (1998)
IMAGE Gary Brown. Joel Gamache.

Aztec West, Sector 1, Room 29 overviews (room photographed in 1998 by Art Ireland prior to backfilling). Early PIII one-story room added to south East Wing of West Ruin(see Morris 1928). Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 29_1A: South interior wall SW oblique copied from IMG0004; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 29_1B: South interior wall SE oblique copied from IMG0006; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 29_1C: East interior wall NE oblique copied from IMG0008; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 29_1D: North interior wall NE oblique copied...


Early Pueblo III great house Room 30 overviews (1998)
IMAGE Gary Brown. Joel Gamache.

Aztec West, Sector 1, Room 30 overviews (room photographed in 1998 by Art Ireland prior to backfilling). Early PIII one-story room added to south East Wing of West Ruin(see Morris 1928). Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 30_1A: South interior wall SW oblique copied from IMG0053; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 30_1B: South interior wall SE oblique copied from IMG0058; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 30_1C: East interior wall SE oblique copied from IMG0049; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 30_1D: North interior wall NE oblique copied...


Early Pueblo III great house Room 31 overviews (1998)
IMAGE Gary Brown. Joel Gamache.

Aztec West, Sector 1, Room 31 overviews (room photographed in 1998 by Art Ireland prior to backfilling). Early PIII one-story room added to south East Wing of West Ruin(see Morris 1928). Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 31_1A: South interior wall SW oblique copied from IMG0062; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 31_1B: South interior wall SE oblique copied from IMG0065; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 31_1C: East interior wall SE oblique copied from IMG0059; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 31_1D: East interior wall NE oblique copied...


Early Pueblo III great house Room 33 overviews (1998)
IMAGE Gary Brown. Joel Gamache.

Aztec West, Sector 1, Room 33 overviews (room photographed in 1998 by Art Ireland prior to backfilling). Early PIII one-story room added to south East Wing of West Ruin(see Morris 1928). Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 33_1A: South interior wall overview copied from IMG0047; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 33_1B: East interior wall SE oblique copied from IMG0063; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 33_1C: East interior wall SE overview copied from IMG0067; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 33_1D: East interior wall NE overview copied...


Early Pueblo III great house Room 35 overviews (1998)
IMAGE Gary Brown. Joel Gamache.

Aztec West, Sector 1, Room 35 overviews (room photographed in 1998 by Art Ireland prior to backfilling). Early PIII one-story room added to south East Wing of West Ruin(see Morris 1928). Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 35_1A: South interior wall SW oblique copied from IMG0017a; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 35_1B: South interior wall SE oblique copied from IMG0019; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 35_1C: East interior wall SE oblique copied from IMG0023; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 35_1D: East interior wall NE oblique copied...


The Eastern Mining Area Transmission Line Survey: Archaeological Resources in the Salt-Gila Uplands of Central Arizona (1994)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas N. Motsinger. Heidi Roberts. Richard V. N. Ahlstrom.

SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants (SWCA), of Tucson, Arizona, conducted the Eastern Mining Area (EMA) survey project under contract to Salt River Project (SRP) between October, 1993, and February, 1994. One central purpose of the project was to create an inventory of archaeological resources to assist in the planning of future improvements and other modifications to existing SRP transmission lines. The project included 107 person-field days of Class III archaeological survey along...


Eating Ethnicity: Examining 18th Century French Colonial Identity Through Selective Consumption of Animal Resources in the North American Interior (2004)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Rory Becker.

Cultural identities can be created and maintained through daily practice and food consumption is one such practice. People need food in order to survive, but the types of food they eat are largely determined by the interaction of culture and their environment. By approaching the topic of subsistence practices as being culturally constituted, the study of foodways provides an avenue to examine issues of cultural identity through selective consumption. Eating certain foods to the exclusion of...


The Economic Base of an Ancient Maya City (2005)
DOCUMENT Full-Text thomas guderjan.

Intensive agriculture supported large ancient Maya populations. However, there have been few attempts to understand how agriculture was integrated with the political economy of a Maya city and that city’s interaction with other polities. The site of Blue Creek in northern Belize offers the opportunity to begin to assess these relationships. Blue Creek had access to enormous agricultural resources and direct access to the riverine coastal trade system. The combination of these factors enabled...


Edwards Plantation
PROJECT Ralph Bailey.

Archaeological data recovery at a portion of 38BU1 on Spring Island, South Carolina.


Eleventh Annual Report of Historic Properties at the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, Mesa, Arizona (2009)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport Authority. Adrienne Tremblay.

This document presents the eleventh annual (Year 11) report detailing the management of historic properties by the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport Authority (PMGAA) at the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport (Gateway) from 1 May 2008 to 30 September 2009. Gateway is located at the former Williams Air Force Base (WAFB) in Mesa, Arizona. Within Gateway, 14 historic properties have been identified: five World War II hangars and nine prehistoric archaeological sites (Figure 1). Activities at Gateway for Year...


Eligibility Testing at Ten Sites in the Fannin-McFarland and Tucson Aqueducts, Central Arizona Project Canal, Maricopa, Pinal, and Pima Counties, Arizona (2017)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Douglas Mitchell. Walter R. Punzmann. Gary Huckleberry. Peg Davis. Emily Higgins Keppler. Jennifer Rich. Lesley Hudson. Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd..

ACS conducted testing at 10 sites within Reclamation’s CAP ROW seeking to resolve the National Register of Historic Places (Register) eligibility status of sites within the CAP ROW. This document presents the results of that testing.


An Eligibility Testing Plan for Sites in the Fannin-McFarland and Tucson Aqueducts, Central Arizona Project Canal, Maricopa, Pinal, and Pima Counties, Arizona (2017)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Douglas Mitchell. Peg Davis. Gary Huckleberry. Andrea Gregory.

In an effort to better manage cultural resources on Reclamation land, PXAO has developed an archaeological site database for the CAP canal. The database was developed using all the previous main stem survey data; however, the Register eligibility status of the majority of these sites was unknown following completion of the CAP. Additionally, an unknown number of sites were either destroyed by construction or excavation, while others are no longer within Reclamation’s CAP right-of-way (ROW). PXAO...


End of Field Work: Report Data Recovery for the GWH Project, Las Cremaciones, Phoenix, Arizona (2006)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Glen E. Rice. John Gooding.

This is a report on the end of field work for a data recovery program conducted from September 23 to November 30, 2005, at the site of Las Cremaciones (AZ T:12:220 [ASM]) in Phoenix, Arizona. The excavation was conducted to assist the K. Hovnanian Great Western Homes (GWH) in complying with Arizona Statute A.R.S. 41-865 on the repatriation of burials and the City of Phoenix Ordinance on Historic Preservation (Chapter 8, Section 802). The K. Hovnanian Great Western Homes data recovery project is...


End of Fieldwork Report for Phase I Testing and Phase II Data Recovery at AZ U:10:32(ASM)/Sand Dune South, Queen Creek, Maricopa County, Arizona (2022)
DOCUMENT Full-Text David Schroeder. Marion Forest.

To meet increased demand for electricity due to growth, SRP plans to construct an approximately 20-mile (mi), double-circuit, 230-kilovolt (kV) transmission line including associated tubular steel pole structures that average 110–140 feet (ft) tall (Project). The Project will connect three 230/69kV receiving stations, including the Ball Substation in Gilbert, the Pfister Substation in southeastern Queen Creek, and the Abel Substation east of San Tan Valley. This Project was approved by the...


End-of-Fieldwork Report for Phase I Data Testing and Phase II Data Recovery at AZ U:9:165(ASM) and AZ U:9:298(ASM) for the City of Tempe’s 8th Street Multi-use Path and Streetscape Improvements (Rural Road to McClintock Drive) Project Tempe, Maricopa County, Arizona (2020)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Jacqueline R. Fox. Travis Cureton. Mark R. Hackbarth.

The COT, in conjunction with the ADOT and FHWA, is planning to construct a multi-use path (MUP) and implement streetscape improvements along 8th Street between Rural Road and McClintock Drive in Tempe. The APE consists of one mile of the existing 8th Street right-of-way measuring 73.0 ft to 90.5 ft wide. This includes the COT-owned property on the north side of 8th Street from Rural Road to Dorsey Lane (a former railroad ROW measuring 33 feet wide by 2,640 feet long), and a SRVWUA 1911...