This game was found at the Tlacuachero shell mound in Chiapas, Mexico. Dating to the Late Archaic Period (3500-1500 BCE), it was identified as a game based on similarities to other games known from ethnographic accounts in North America. It is the oldest potential game board known in the Western Hemisphere.
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Voorhies, B. 2013. "The Deep Prehistory of Indian Gaming: Possible Late Archaic Period Game Boards at the Tlacuachero Shellmound, Chiapas, Mexico." Latin American Antiquity 24(1): 98-115.
