![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Although, their use in team and goal sport is likely, a suggested game similar to hockey, golf or polo cannot be confirmed, because no appropriate sticks were found in direct association with the balls. Our study approves the antiquity of the Yanghai balls, but the available data is not enough to answer the question how these balls were played. Three leather balls discovered in tombs IM157, IM209, and IM214 of the prehistoric Yanghai cemetery (42☄8′N, 89☃9′E) located about 43 km southeast of the modern city of Turfan, were AMS radiocarbon dated to the time interval between 1189 and 911 BCE (95% probability), and thus predate other currently known antique balls and images of ball games in Eurasia by several centuries.
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