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<< Our Photo Pages >> Pueblo Grande - Ball Court - Ancient Village or Settlement in United States in The Southwest

Submitted by bat400 on Sunday, 24 September 2006  Page Views: 11995

Multi-periodSite Name: Pueblo Grande - Ball Court
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 8.285 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: The Southwest Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Phoenix, Arizona
Latitude: 33.446940N  Longitude: 111.9842W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
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 3 Ambience:
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
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1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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bat400 visited on 11th Jan 2010 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 5 The ball court is on the grounds of Pueblo Grande. Next go to "Pueblo Grande - Park of Four Waters". [URL=http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=16941]http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=16941[/URL].

Pueblo Grande - Ball Court
Pueblo Grande - Ball Court submitted by bat400 : The south half of the ball court. Photo: Jan 2010, bat400. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ball Court in Maricopa County, Arizona.

Pueblo Grande Ball Court.
A ball court, similar to the structure seen at Casa Grande farther to the south.

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Type of Site. Re: Pueblo Grande - Ball Court by bat400 on Monday, 25 September 2006
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[Note to Admin: Please change the type of site to "Other". This is a Ball Court - a type of site you don't have a catagory for. Thanks!]
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    Type of Site. Re: Pueblo Grande - Ball Court by Andy B on Monday, 25 September 2006
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    OK, what sort of site is a 'Ball Court'? I presume that's not meant literally!
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    Type of Site. Re: Pueblo Grande - Ball Court by bat400 on Monday, 25 September 2006
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    Well, it's a ball court. You know Americans - we're literalists. The first entry I made on a Ball Court was at the Casa Grande site. This one is similar. This is thought to be the North American version of the mesoamerican stone ball courts farther south. This is a big oval ampitheater area. They are clearly visible both here and at Casa Grande in the Flash earth view.
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      Type of Site. Re: Pueblo Grande - Ball Court by Andy B on Monday, 25 September 2006
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      I guessed it might look like a ball court but are people suggesting that ancient games of ball were played? Or...?
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        Type of Site. Re: Pueblo Grande - Ball Court by bat400 on Tuesday, 26 September 2006
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        Yes, a game area - really. They think a ball game because that's what historic folks did down in Mexico on stone courts of a similar size. (You think I'm just trying to string you along on this? :) (Ha, let's see if they believe this!...))

        I've not given it a heck of a lot of thought since I visited Casa Grande and the NPS called this thing a "ball court." So, I checked around the web to try to determine if I was going mad. No, I'm not. People have been calling these ball courts and assuming some sort of game was played there. Click on any of these and search "ball" on the page and you'll find it.
        herehttp://www2.nau.edu/~libei-p/scadb/recdisplay.cfm?control_num=9649">here> herehttp://www.nps.gov/cagr/forkids/beajuniorranger.htm">here> herehttp://www.desertusa.com/ind1/du_peo_sin.html">here>
        herehttp://www.waterhistory.org/histories/hohokam/">here> herehttp://www.totallyazsports.com/Arizona.html">here>
        Given a lack of a big petrogylph with an image of one of these structures full of guys batting a ball around - this type of structure is assumed to have been a gathering place where something that required "boundaries" was performed.
        Its not a central plaza, because you don't need a set boundary, nor are they all "central". No body built anything "on" these, they don't find lots of artifacts, like you might if it had been the cooking/working ground or a marketplace.

        I've found one "nay-sayer" named Fisher who is fed up with people ascribing non-practical meaning to SW structures. He thinks they are big basins for cultivating algae to use for compost!
        abstracthttp://www.canyonsworldwide.com/fisher/abstract.htm">abstract>
        But we don't have a big petroglyph of people scraping up algae off these things either. ;)
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