Which board game has origins among the Maya people of the Guatemalan highlands, Abalone or Bul?
Bul
Title: Robert M. Carmack
Passage: Robert M. Carmack (born 1934) is an academic anthropologist and Mesoamericanist scholar who is most noted for his studies of the history, culture and societies of contemporary Maya peoples.  In particular he has conducted extensive research on the K'iche' (Quiché) Mayas of the Guatemalan Highlands in the context of the infiltration and migration of Nahuatl speaking peoples into the Maya cultural areas.
Title: Bul (game)
Passage: Bul, also called "Buul", "Boolik" or "Puluc", is a running-fight board game originating in Mesoamerica, and is known particularly among several of the Maya peoples of the Guatemalan highlands.  It is uncertain whether this specific game dates back to the pre-Columbian Maya civilization, or whether instead it developed in the post-colonial era after the arrival of the Spanish conquistadores.
Title: Cerro Quiac
Passage: Cerro Quiac (] ) (K'iaq [kˀiˈaq] and K'iaqb'al [kˀiaqˈɓal] in the K'iche language) is a small Maya archaeological site located at an altitude of 2635 m , overlooking the Plains of Urbina in the Guatemalan Highlands.  When investigated in 1970 it had five stone sculptures, by 1977 only four were left.  The sculptures included figures and geometric decoration.  The site is still used for contemporary Maya rituals.  Cerro Quiac is located in the northeast of the municipality of Cantel, within the boundaries of the hamlet of Chirijquiac.
Title: Abalone (board game)
Passage: Abalone is an award-winning two-player abstract strategy board game designed by Michel Lalet and Laurent Lévi in 1987.  Players are represented by opposing black and white marbles on a hexagonal board with the objective of pushing six of the opponent's marbles off the edge of the board.
Title: Maya calendar
Passage: The Maya calendar is a system of calendars used in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and in many modern communities in the Guatemalan highlands, Veracruz, Oaxaca and Chiapas, Mexico.
Title: Maya priesthood
Passage: Until the discovery that Maya stelae depicted kings instead of high priests, the Maya priesthood and their preoccupations had been a main scholarly concern.  In the course of the 1960s and over the following decades, however, dynastic research came to dominate interest in the subject.  A concept of royal 'shamanism', chiefly propounded by Linda Schele and Freidel, came to occupy the forefront instead.  Yet, Classic Maya civilization, being highly ritualistic, would have been unthinkable without a developed priesthood.  Like other Pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican priesthoods, the early Maya priesthood consisted of a hierarchy of professional priests serving as intermediaries between the population and the deities.  Their basic skill was the art of reading and writing.  The priesthood as a whole was the keeper of knowledge concerning the deities and their cult, including calendrics, astrology, divination, and prophecy.  In addition, they were experts in historiography and genealogy.  Priests were usually male and could marry.  Most of our knowledge concerns Yucatán in the Late Postclassic, with additional data stemming from the contemporaneous Guatemalan Highlands. .
Title: Plectrohyla pokomchi
Passage: Plectrohyla pokomchi is a species of frogs in the family Hylidae.  It is endemic to central and eastern Guatemala and known from Sierra de Xucaneb and Sierra de las Minas at elevations of 1400 – above sea level.  Its specific name refers to the Poqomchi' people, a group of Indian people from the Guatemalan highlands.
Title: Cara Sucia (Mesoamerican site)
Passage: Cara Sucia is a Mesoamerican archaeological site in western El Salvador.  The site was first settled in the Preclassic period and was finally abandoned around 900 AD, in the Terminal Classic, when the Pipil people moved into the region, although there is no evidence of Pipil occupation at the site.  It is thought that during the Early Preclassic (1200–500 BC), the site was occupied by people who spoke a forerunner of the Mayan languages, and during the Late Preclassic period the site has evidence of contact with Chalchuapa and with Kaminaljuyu in the Guatemalan Highlands.
Title: Ch’orti’ language
Passage: The Ch'orti' language (sometimes also "Chorti") is a Mayan language, spoken by the indigenous Maya people who are also known as the Ch'orti' or Ch'orti' Maya.  Ch'orti' is a direct descendant of the Classic Maya language in which many of the pre-Columbian inscriptions using the Maya script were written.  This Classic Maya language is also attested in a number of inscriptions made in regions whose inhabitants most likely spoke a different Mayan language variant, including the ancestor of Yukatek Maya.  Ch'orti' is the modern version of the ancient Mayan language Ch'olan (which was actively used and most popular between the years of A.D 250 and 850).
Title: Suzanna W. Miles
Passage: Suzanna ('Sue') Whitelaw Miles (Mount Carroll, Illinois, June 7, 1922 – Boston, April 10, 1966) was an American ethnohistorian, anthropologist and archaeologist.  Miles was known for her work among the Maya peoples of the North-western Guatemalan highlands, her analyses of early-colonial sources on Pre-Hispanic Maya culture and society (particularly her study of 16th-century Poqom social structure), and her pioneering studies of pre-Columbian Maya civilization urban environments and settlement patterns.
Abalone (board game) Bul (game)