Archaeologists have located about 220 amphitheater-like structures that researchers believe were used by the Hohokam primarily as ball courts. It's impossible to know with certainty the kind of ...

In the last 40 years, archaeologists have changed their minds about the origin of the prehistoric Hohokam, who built extensive irrigation systems, ball courts and platform mounds, made beautiful ...

The game the HoHoKam played was more like Pok-ta-pok, which, as everyone knows, was an early version of soccer played by the Mayans. The ball (two ... were played on courts, several of which ...

A ball court was an oval- or bowl-shaped depression, approximately 80 to 115 feet in length by 50 feet wide. Berms surrounded the ball courts and the floor was covered in caliche.

The village was occupied by the Hohokam between approximately 450 and 1400 and is known as La Plaza de Tempe. ... fire pits and even ball courts." He said the findings are chronicled in a report which ...

Pima County hopes to capitalize on the low land values hitting commercial investors now as it tries to secure state funds to buy 67 acres on the Southwest Side for ...