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Show !Find 800-Year-Old "Bowl" Where Games Were Played Discovery of a large oval "bowl" where prehistoric America's exciting games were played 800 years ago Is announced at Flagstaff, Ariz., by Dr. Harold S. Colton of the Museum of Northern Arizona. The discovery, pronounced amai-lng, amai-lng, was made In northern Arlzoni near Flagstaff, by a Joint expedition of the Museum and Arizona State Teachers College of Flagstaff, led by J. C. McGregor. The find surprises archeologlsts, because be-cause never before has It been realized real-ized that ball games national sport of Mayas, Aztecs, and other Indians of Mexico were popular over so wide an area of ancient America. The game court now excavated 's an oval bowl about 100 feet long and 45 feet wide, with slightly pointed ends. The sloping sides, Doctor Colton Col-ton said, must have been seven or eight feet high, and the floor was level. A goal was made of four rocks In the floor. Science Service. |