Cricket from the stone age?
A visit to National Museum of the History of Sport in Orkney offers evidence of how closely sport and life are related writes Alan Tyers, in the Telegraph
Among the museum's treasures are this skeleton of the so-called Head Down Man, believed to be the first Stone Age cricketer. Preserved in a mixture of peat and his own bile on a Yorkshire moor, he was interred with some sticks of rhubarb, probably a totem for use in the afterlife.