体育活动，作为一种社会文化现象，是随着社会生产的发展和社会生活的变化，并伴随着早期科学、艺术、教育、宗教和军事战争等活动而适时出现的。而反映在人类早期社会生产和生活中的球戏、射箭、舞蹈、搏击等活动内容，正是人类体育活动的早期形式。
The Emergence of Early Sports
The Emergence of Early Sports Like other forms of culture, such as science, arts, education and religion, sport as a social phenomenon first appeared in human history together with productive, recreation and military activities –in the form of archery, dance, boxing and ball games, to mention but a few.
这是目前我国考古发现中最早的石镞，也是目前世界上最早的箭头之一。
A stone arrow head in the Old Stone Age, dating back to 28,000 years age and excavated in Zhiyu, Shanxi Province, as the earliest of its kink ever found in China and the whole world.
画中反映了“武艺操练”和抛球的游戏。
Martial dance and ball game as depicted in a rock painting in Cangyuan County, Yunnan Province, dating back to the New Stone Age (c.6000-2000 BC) or the Bronze Age (e.2000-500BC)
射箭者正挽弓射向野兽。
Hunting in a rock painting, ibid, showing archers aiming at animals.
盆的内壁绘有3组场面欢快的舞蹈纹图案。
A pot with a design of health-oriented dances, unearthed in 1973 in Datong County, Qinghai Province, dating back to the New Stone Age and belongings to the pre-history Mariana Culture.
Unfold Decorations of Banquet and Battle on the Bronze Hu Warring States Period Unearthed at Baihuatan in Chengdu,Sichuan Province,1965