3,400 year old BALL COURT discovered in Mexico | Jeffrey Blomster Interview

In the first installment of Trowelocity, which looks inside the stories that make the archaeological and historical headlines, Professor Miano interviews Jeffrey Blomster, one of the archaeologists who recently discovered the remains of an ancient ball court in Oaxaca, Mexico. It is the earliest known court in which the famous ballgame of Mesoamerica was played in the highlands, some 800 years earlier than previously known. Get the full scoop here.

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Article in Science Advances by Jeffrey Blomster and Victor Salazar Chavez about the new discovery:
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/11/eaay6964

Jeffrey Blomster et al, The Early Olmec and Mesoamerica:
https://amzn.to/35NMHtW (Amazon)

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