Interesting

[Mrs Redboots]

Ice-skating born of necessity (http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/01/02/finland-ice-skating.html?dcitc=w19-502-ak-0000%5B/URL)

[Helen88]

Those bone skates actually remind me of some of those clip on things that I see little 'uns wearing at the rink sometimes...

[sk8_4fun]

I dont think even our skate shop could mess those 'blades' up! ;)

[black]

Weird; the BBC News article (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7159057.stm) on the same subject puts skating 4,000 not 5,000 years old.

Also noticed this in the news: Mexicans take to giant ice rink (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7169057.stm)

[black]

From the "horses mouth":


From: Federico Formenti <federico.formenti@dpag.ox.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 07:54:38 +0000
Subject: Re: The first humans travelling on ice: an energy-saving strategy?

There is surely evidence for it starting from 2000 BC; most
historical references say that it seems likely that it started much
earlier than that, about 3000 BC, but there is no direct evidence for
this.

Regards,
Federico