Humans of ancient Sumer invent belt wrestling
A polished bone implement found at Eva in Tennessee, United States and dated to around 5000 B.C.E. has been construed as a possible sporting device used in a “ring and pin” game.
Athletics & sport
Humans invent wrestling, the first ever sport
Cave paintings have been found in the Lascaux caves in France that have been suggested to depict wrestling in the Upper Paleolithic around 15,300 years ago.