Culture the Stabilizer

[James Brody]

Culture can be described as a catalyst for experimentation. On the other hand, it stabilizes a very wide range of events and suppresses variation. I suggest that relatively few cultures encouraged experimentation and that, as our closes down, 500 years may pass before another replaces it.
JimB
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"A Mesoamerican ballcourt is a large masonry structure of a type used in Mesoamerica for more than 2700 years to play the Mesoamerican ballgame. Over 1300 ballcourts have been identified, 60% in the last 20 years alone.[1] Although there is a tremendous variation in size, in general all ballcourts are the same shape..."

More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_ballcourt