The Late Formative to Classic period continued to depict ball players in some of their ceramic figures. These figures are often seen holding a ball. Solid ceramic dioramas or models from the greater West Mexico region depict multiple people playing the ball game and often accompanied by spectators sitting or standing on the ball court walls.Eric Taladoire (1979). Ball-Game Scenes and Ball-Courts in West Mexican Archaeology. A Problem in Chronology. INDIANA 5: 33-44.Eric Taladoire (1998). Los juegos de pelota en el occidente de México. El occidente de México: arqueologıa, historia y medio ambiente. Perspectivas regionales. Actas del IV Coloquio Internacional de Occidentalistas, pp. 175-187. Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara Some figurines depict warrior/ball players with a mix of clothing and equipment, a common association elsewhere in Mesoamerica. Some of these figures show people wearing protective leather pants. Some of the skeletal remains from Huitzilapa have lesions on their arms and hips, consistent with atlatl use and hitting balls or falling upon their hips for the ball game.
