| |
People's Daily Online -- Cliff paintings substantiate Altay as place of human skiing 10,000 years ago, experts say |
 | | Contents of ancient cliff paintings in northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have been verified as human hunting while skiing and, therefore, archeologists prove the Altay region to be a place of skiing some 100 to 200 centuries ago. |
| | They held that cliff paintings in Altay had been the earliest archaeological evidence to show how humans had skied in the early days and suggest skiing had originated in Altay. |
| | With frequent, plentiful snowfalls in winter, the Altay mountainous landscape with abundant forest resources provides ideal for skiing, experts said. |
| english.people.com.cn /200601/23/eng20060123_237663.html (238 words) |
