Rubber Matches
Pok-to-pok ball game, depicted on a ceramic vessel, c. A.D. 682-701. The rubber ball, symbolic of the sun, was thrust by hips and knees. Team members who lost were sacrificed, according to signage at archeological sites but present-day archeologists disagree on this outcome. (Dallas Museum of Art). From Mesoamerica to ball games, the raw material […]










