Ski
Esquí
- Date
- c. 6300 BCE · confidence high
- Place
- Vis bog, Syndor, Komi Republic, Russia
- Credited to
- Mesolithic hunters of northern Russia
- Field
- Movement
What it is
A fragment of a wooden ski with a carved elk head, found alongside sledges and bows, the oldest known example. It allows travel and hunting over deep snow.
What it led to
- Winter hunting of elk and reindeer in the taiga
- Mobility and the fur trade across Eurasian Arctic regions
- An unbroken tradition down to the modern ski
Built on
- Sledgec. 6500 BCE
- Snowshoe
Made possible
- Ski tow (rope tow)1908
- Fennoscandian ski (Kalvträsk, c. 3200 BC)