History of martial arts
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Date: 2022-01-22

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Although the earliest evidence of martial arts goes back millennia, the true roots are difficult to reconstruct.
Inherent patterns of human aggression which inspire practice of mock combat （in particular wrestling） and optimization of serious close combat as
cultural universals are doubtlessly inherited from the pre-human stage and were made into an "art" from the earliest emergence of that concept.
Indeed, many universals of martial art are fixed by the specifics of human physiology and not dependent on a specific tradition or era.
Specific martial traditions become identifiable in Classical Antiquity, with disciplines such as shuai jiao, Greek wrestling or those described in the Indian epics or the Spring and Autumn Annals of China.
The Boxer of Quirinal resting after contest （Bronze sculpture, 3rd century BCE） Minoan youths boxing, reconstruction of a Knossos fresco （1500 BC）.
Earliest evidence for use of gloves.
The earliest evidence for specifics of martial arts as practiced in the past comes from depictions of fights, both in figurative art and in early literature, besides analysis of archaeological evidence, especially of weaponry.
The oldest work of art depicting scenes of battle, dating back 3400 BC, was the Ancient Egyptian paintings showing some form of struggle.
Dating back to 3000 BC in Mesopotamia （Babylon）, reliefs and the poems depicting struggle were found.
In Vietnam, drawings and sketches from 2879 BCE describe certain ways of combat using sword, stick, bow, and spears.
The spear has been in use since the Lower Paleolithic and retained its central importance well into the 2nd millennium AD. The bow appears in the Upper Paleolithic and is likewise only gradually replaced by the crossbow,
and eventually firearms, in the Present Day.
True bladed weapons appear in the Neolithic with the s...