Games - Chunkey

	Games - Chunkey

Chunkey is a game of rolling a certain type of stones across the ground. It was created in A.D. 600 in the Cahokia region and was played until the fall of the Cahokia people in A.D. 1400. The rolling of the stones is said to have represented either the sun moving across the sky, or the flight of a legendary arrow.

Chunkey was played in huge arenas as large as 19 hectares that housed great audiences. This game was designed to bring people of its time and region together (i.e. Cahokians, farmers, immigrants, and even visitors).

The people of Gottschall Rockshelter, in A.D. 1050 in Wisconsin also partook in the festivities of Chunkey.

"North American Archaeology" ed. Pauketat, Timothy R., DiPaolo Loren, Diana. Blackwell Publishing 2005.

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