BRONZE AGE ICE SKATES found in China - but are they the oldest? #shorts #prehistory

Chinese archaeologists have recently discovered some Bronze Age ice skates made out of bones.

Two pairs of animal bone skates, believed to be 3,500 years old, were found in China’s Xinjiang region. According to researchers, these skates, made from ox and horse bones, are a first-of-its-kind discovery in China.

Archaeologist Ruan Qiurong, from the Xinjiang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archeology, revealed that these skates are quite similar to ice skates found in prehistoric Europe.

However, The oldest pair of skates known in Europe are about 5,000 years old and were found at the bottom of a lake in Switzerland.

It is also thought that the earliest ice skaters must have been the Finns, who had the largest areas of ice to contend with in their daily lives, and must have had some means of getting from place to place efficiently - so the thinking goes.

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