What is the oldest recorded toy in history?

Question

Come on people, put some thought into it! I want details, sources!
I will give 10 points to the person who does the best research.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

One of the oldest known toys, it is likely that the yo-yo was created independently in several different areas. Stone yo-yos more than three thousand years old have been found in Greece and evidence indicates that yo-yos may also have been present in ancient Chinese culture. In the 1700s, the yo-yo or jou-jou, as it was called, provided entertainment for the French royal court.



In the 1800s, the toy became popular with children in Victorian England. It was soon taken to the United States, where patents were issued and design changes were made to improve its play. However, by the early 1900s, the toy had lost its allure.

In 1928, entrepreneur Donald Duncan, who had already successfully marketed the parking meter, movie screen, and Eskimo pie, happened to see a young man named Pedro Flores demonstrating how to play with a yo-yo in Los Angeles. Enamored with the toy, Duncan bought Flores's small yo-yo making company for $25,000. Soon, Duncan had hired hundreds of "Yo-Yo Men" to travel the country demonstrating amazing yo-yo tricks, like "walking the dog" and "around the world," while drumming up sales of the toy. The yo-yo was a huge success.

In the years since Duncan's re-introduction of the yo-yo, three presidents, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon, have publicly played with the toy. Political activist Abbie Hoffman once "walked the dog" during a Congressional hearing. Tom Kuhn, who started his own yo-yo company, has built a 256- pound yo-yo with a diameter of fifty inches. In 1992, a yo-yo was brought into space by astronaut Jeffry Hoffman on the space shuttle Atlantis.

Answer 2

It does not stop at McDonald's, films, documentaries and personal opinion all effect the native american population. It is down to re educating the people in the natives own words, getting away from the government, propaganda and glorifying white American history. People are ignorant and naive still and the real history of America is still kept a secret. America has no history of its own, the history it does have anything that is harrowing or inspiring but destruction and pain. The live on the backs of other peoples history. I seen Night in the Museum and I did notice that there where no Native American hero's but yet again glorifying the American image. If the world where in the know about Custer they would not Idol him, I am sure. I don't know what to say but I am disgusted, I have a great respect for the Native American.

Answer 3

I think the oldest toys were very natural. Boys may have taken rocks and sticks, and played as if they were on a hunt. Girls would find a fruit and hold it like a baby doll, just as they saw their own mothers and aunts.

Using a stick to draw in the sand is another natural - later on, they discovered that they could paint with wet ash, or blood, too.

Play had the same purpose it does today - practical and social skill development!

Answer 4

The oldest toy is the doll. Second was the yo-yo. Of course this does not take into account a childs fasination with all kinds of things like rocks and mirrors.. but lets not get into that. They have found dolls in egyptian tombs dating back to 2000BC.

Answer 5

Rocking Horse?

Answer 6

I would have to say animal figurines carved from wood, for example if you have ever seen the movie Troy, Hector carves a wooden lion (i think it was a lion) for his son

Answer 7

Well by my best logical knowledge I'll have to say It is a boomerang from Australia 6000 years ago...

Answer 8

A rock or stick!

Answer 9

chess 600 a.d.

Answer 10

the wheel, dirt, old bones