Juego y muerte: Imágenes de un ritual / Game and Death: Images of a Ritual
Author(s): Sara Ladron De Guevara
Year: 2024
Summary
This is an abstract from the "Los Rituales del Juego de Pelota en la Costa del Golfo / Ballgame Rituals in the Gulf Lowlands" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Images from Las Higueras mural paintings as well as from El Tajín bas reliefs depicting ball players and sacrifice related to the ritual will be presented and discussed. Musicians, ballplayers, and divinities seem to have specific roles. Were the losers or the winners sacrificed? Chroniquers and images will give some clues on the matter.
Cite this Record
Juego y muerte: Imágenes de un ritual / Game and Death: Images of a Ritual. Sara Ladron De Guevara. Presented at The 89th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2024 ( tDAR id: 497499)
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Keywords
General
Ballgame
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Iconography and Art
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Iconography and epigraphy
Geographic Keywords
Mesoamerica: Gulf Coast
Spatial Coverage
min long: -98.987; min lat: 17.77 ; max long: -86.858; max lat: 25.839 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 37745.0