Students of the game: when the Aztec and Maya played it 500 to 1,000 years ago, the losers sometimes lost their heads--literally. Today scholars are visiting remote Mexican villages to study the oldest sport in the Americas, ulama, now on the verge of extinction.

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  • Author(s): Fox, John
  • Source:
    Smithsonian. April, 2006, Vol. 37 Issue 1, p110, 6 p.