Article Date:
Tuesday, July 27, 2021
By Maurice Woehrlé
Archaeology and DNA evidence support the theory that skiing arose east of the Baltic, at the end of the last Ice Age.
Translated by Seth Masia
Where and when was skiing invented? In 1888, Fridtjof Nansen theorized that it was invented in prehistoric times in southern Siberia, in the region between Lake Baikal and the Altai Mountains. From there, he wrote, it spread with migrating tribes to the rest of Siberia and Europe. But archaeological sites in European Russia and recent DNA evidence suggest strongly that skiing began in the Baltic region, at the close of the last Ice Age...
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