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A Ball Court at Point of Pines, Arizona*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Alfred E. Johnson
Alfred E. Johnson*
Affiliation:
Arizona State Museum, Tucson, Ariz.
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Abstract

A Casa Grande type ball court at the Stove Canyon site was probably constructed during the Reserve phase, A.D. 1000-1150. The only ball court in a Mogollon region, it constitutes further evidence of extensive early influence at Point of Pines from the Hohokam of the Gila Basin.

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American Antiquity , Volume 26 , Issue 4 , April 1961 , pp. 563 - 567
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1961

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Footnotes

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Contributions to Point of Pines Archaeology, Number 19.

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