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Central Asian Horse Riders Played Ball Games 3k Years Ago
- jsnk 6y agoA ball has to one of the top 10 human inventions of all time along with speech, wheals, wall and garment.
- carabiner 6y agoThe handegg even greater though, at least in the US.
- c1b 6y agohuman invention? heard of rocks?
- jessaustin 6y agoRocks are fine for throwing at targets, which behavior certainly dates back much further, but you can't play polo with them. (I found TFA's blithe dismissal of the polo mallets found at the same cemetery unconvincing.)
- tsimionescu 6y agoWould anyone be surprised if we found out that hunter - gatherers played some kind of ball games?
- 082349872349872 6y agoThinking of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23667506 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23667506 , I wouldn't be surprised if the "mis-thrown" ball covertly targeted near a group of attractive women wasn't already old in the mesolithic.
- dalbasal 6y agoThey built big monuments, had big rituals. I guess it'd be cool to learn that they had ball games, but I don't think it would be shocking.
- 082349872349872 6y agoSmall leather things just don't last as long as big stone things. I wouldn't be surprised if the oldest known ball coming from the lower Nile has less to do with area of use and more to do with desert climate. Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert ...
- cafard 6y agoNausicaa and her attendants play with a ball in the Odyssey, which must date from about 3000 years ago.
- motohagiography 6y agoWhen I read myths of centaurs I can't help but think they were a metaphoric description of these early horseman tribes, also as the origins of wisdom from the east.
- person_of_color 6y agoAgreed. They must be a depiction R1a P-I-E tribes who conquered the natives as they spread east (India) and west (Europe).
- 082349872349872 6y agoCompare Anacharsis/Solon.