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China: An Altaic legend

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Musing Under the Tenement Palm tracks down the source of a commonly reported “factoid” that China claimed to have invented skiing on the basis of ancient Altaic cave-paintings of Stone-Age hunters on skis in its northwestern regions.

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  • Ro

    looking for pix or photos for a school project on ancient skis

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