Games played with curved sticks and a ball have been found throughout history and the world. There are 4000-year-old drawings from Egypt depicting playing of sport. Hurling dates to before 1272 BC in Ireland, and there is a depiction from ca. 600 BC in Ancient Greece where the game may have been called kerētízein or kerhtízein (κερητίζειν) because it was played with a horn (kéras, κέρας) or horn-like stick. In Inner Mongolia, China, the Daur people have been playing beikou, a game similar to modern field hockey, for about 1,000 years. Other traces show that the Persians, the Romans (a version called paganica) , the Ethiopians, as well as the Aztecs were playing their own variation of the game.
There were hockey-like games throughout Europe during the Middle Ages. European settlers in Chile in the 16th century described a hockey-like game of the Araucano Indians called chueca (or 'the twisted one' from the twisted end of the stick used by players). In Western Australia, early white settlers witnessed Noongar people played a game called dumbung, in which bent sticks were used to hit a ball made of dried sap from the native peartree.
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