Evidence of an early ski stick was unearthed in Sweden (I think the stick often doubled as a weapon). PSIA founding president Bill Lash writes in The Official American Ski Technique, 1970, of the earliest ski found to-date:
‘The so-called Hoting ski is the oldest found. It was dug up by Swedish archaeologists in a peat bog in 1921, and its age is estimated at over forty-five hundred years old…
The Kalutrask Ski, found in a Swedish marsh, is about thirty-nine hundred years old. The ski is 204 cm. long and is 15 cm. wide at the center. It is of pine wood. A stick, with a hollowed-out blade on one end, was found near the ski.’ 2
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- 4000 Years Ago – Rock carving of Rødøy skiers, on two skis, with one pole with “hook” (weapon?) at end – from Rødøy, Norway. Are “ears” an early rendition of the traditional Lapp 4-cornered hat? BSYB 1937, 6
