Talk:Maya ballgame

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the Mayans had Rubber?

It says that they used a RUBBER ball but rubber wasn't invented until 1839 --3.14159265358979323846264338327950abc (talk) 03:39, 19 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Rubber wasn't "invented". It's the latex of the rubber tree plant. Vulcanized rubber came about in the 19th century, but rubber itself has been known and used for far longer than that. --DMAJohnson (talk) 17:47, 10 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Odd sources

I don't mean to dispute those sources are valid, but listing only last name of the author does seem to require more... expertise on the subject than Wikipedia should assume. Titles of books and isbns anyone? --Sigmundur (talk) 07:16, 9 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

"some sources say" which sources, no reference — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.163.215.205 (talk) 19:09, 13 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Agree that entries in the References section are appalling. Added a "biblio" tag to the article. Anyone who has info on any of these citations, please expand! — Molly-in-md (talk) 16:14, 21 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I've done some citation work. However, "Scarborough" needs the attention of an expert: although the author is clearly Vernon L. Scarborough, the citation could be

"Archaeology at Cerros, Belize, Central America, vol. 3: The Settlement System in a Late Preclassic Maya Community" (David A. Freidel, ed.). Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas. – see references to this work, for example, in http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.117.6253&rep=rep1&type=pdf
more directly, "The Mesoamerican Ballgame" book, 1991, edited by Vernon L. Scarborough and David R. Wilcox, The University of Arizona Press, https://books.google.com/books?id=KI5oWAQlKdoC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=tulix&f=false

The book above also makes me wonder if "Vilcox" is actually "Wilcox".

— Molly-in-md (talk) 14:01, 26 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Relation to basketball?

The Wikipedia article on basketball does not reference this game in its history section either & I'm wondering if the history section there is suffering from a Eurocentric bias... 2001:8F8:1623:66CB:8DA2:A3DF:86A1:5C5B (talk) 06:41, 12 February 2021 (UTC)R.E.D.[reply]