The
history of sport can extend from the beginnings of military training,
with competition being used as a means of determining whether
individuals were fit and useful for service. Team sports may have been developed to train and demonstrate the ability to fight and work together as a team. The
history of sport can teach us about social changes and about the nature
of sport itself, since sport seems an original research involved in the
development of basic human skills. Of course, as it goes further in history, diminishing evidence makes
theories about the origins and purposes of sport increasingly difficult
to support.
Rock paintings have been found in the caves of Lascaux, in France, which have been suggested to represent sprint and wrestling in the Upper Paleolithic 15,300 years ago. Cave paintings in Mongolia's Bayankhongor province dating to the Neolithic age of 7,000 BCE show a fighting match surrounded by crowds. The Neolithic rock art found in the cave of swimmers in Wadi Sura, near Gilf Kebir in Libya has shown evidence of swimming and archery being practiced around 6000 BCE. Prehistoric cave paintings in Japan have also been found to represent a sport similar to sumo wrestling.
Several depictions of wrestlers have been found on stone slabs recovered from Sumerian civilization. One that shows three pairs of fighters was generally dated around 3000 BCE. A fused Bronze statuette, has been found in Khafaji in Iraq showing two figures in a wrestling dating back to around 2600 BCE. The statue is one of the first representations of the sport and is in the National Museum of Iraq. The origins of boxing have also been traced back to the ancient Sumer. The epic of Gilgamesh gives one of the first historical records of the sport with Gilgamesh engaging in a form of leash fighting with Enkidu. The cuneiform tablets recording the date of the tale around 2000 BCE, however historical Gilgamesh is supposed to have lived around 2800 to 2600 BCE. Sumerian King Shulgi also boasts of his sporting prowess in the Shulgi A-B, Self-praise. Fishing hooks not unlike the facts today have been encountered during excavations in Ur, demonstrating evidence of the Fishing in Sumer around 2600 BCE.
Rock paintings have been found in the caves of Lascaux, in France, which have been suggested to represent sprint and wrestling in the Upper Paleolithic 15,300 years ago. Cave paintings in Mongolia's Bayankhongor province dating to the Neolithic age of 7,000 BCE show a fighting match surrounded by crowds. The Neolithic rock art found in the cave of swimmers in Wadi Sura, near Gilf Kebir in Libya has shown evidence of swimming and archery being practiced around 6000 BCE. Prehistoric cave paintings in Japan have also been found to represent a sport similar to sumo wrestling.
Several depictions of wrestlers have been found on stone slabs recovered from Sumerian civilization. One that shows three pairs of fighters was generally dated around 3000 BCE. A fused Bronze statuette, has been found in Khafaji in Iraq showing two figures in a wrestling dating back to around 2600 BCE. The statue is one of the first representations of the sport and is in the National Museum of Iraq. The origins of boxing have also been traced back to the ancient Sumer. The epic of Gilgamesh gives one of the first historical records of the sport with Gilgamesh engaging in a form of leash fighting with Enkidu. The cuneiform tablets recording the date of the tale around 2000 BCE, however historical Gilgamesh is supposed to have lived around 2800 to 2600 BCE. Sumerian King Shulgi also boasts of his sporting prowess in the Shulgi A-B, Self-praise. Fishing hooks not unlike the facts today have been encountered during excavations in Ur, demonstrating evidence of the Fishing in Sumer around 2600 BCE.
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