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A Ball Court Located on the San Pedro River in Southeastern Arizona

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Charles C. Dipeso
Charles C. Dipeso*
Affiliation:
Amerind Foundation, Inc., Dragoon, Arizona
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The Amerind Foundation, Inc. spent the first three weeks of December, 1948, excavating a ball court at the archaeological site of Arizona:BB:15:3, which is located in Cochise County, Sec. 20, T15S, R20E. The actual village area is located on the west bank of the San Pedro River twenty-two miles north of the city of Benson at an approximate elevation of 3300 feet.

The ball court was located in the north half of the village on a terrace some forty feet above the river channel. It appeared as a shallow but conspicuous oval depression which was overgrown with mesquite trees and other desert flora of the Sonoran plateau type. Fortunately the court had not been disturbed by any previous excavations nor by erosion (Fig. 86, a).

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American Antiquity , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , January 1951 , pp. 257 - 260
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1951

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