Details of Ballcourt III of Copandepicting a Macaw

Rubber ballgames have been played in this kind of area by indigenous people throughout Mesoamerica since the second millennium B.C. and probably spawned the development of modern games using bouncing balls, such as soccer. Eyewitness accounts at the time of the Spanish Conquest and native writings from the 16th century are the only written explanations we have to give us an understanding of how the game may have been played in ancient times. Judging from the form of the courts, each site seems to have had its own rules and preferences.