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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 S(K years ago is announced at Flagstaff, Ariz., by Dr. Harold S. Colton of the Museum of Northern Arizona. The discovery, pronounced amazing, amaz-ing, was made In northern Arizona near Flagstaff, by a Joint expedition of the Museum and Arizona State Teachers College of Flagstaff, led by J. C. McGregor. The find surprises archeoleglsts. because be-cause never before lias 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 is 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 Moor was level. A goal was made of four I rocks la the floor. Science Service. |