Field Hockey Player with Text Ceramic Tree Decoration

There is a depiction of a hockey-like game from 200 BC in Ancient Greece when the game may have been called "?e??t??e??" ("keretízein") because it was played with a horn ("???a?" in Greek) and a ball-like object. In East Asia, a similar game was entertained, using a carved wooden stick and ball prior to 300 BC. In Inner Mongolia, China, the Daur people have been playing Beikou a game with some similarities to field hockey for about 1,000 years. The word 'hockey' itself was recorded in 1363 when Edward III of England issued the proclamation: "[M]oreover we ordain that you prohibit under penalty of imprisonment all and sundry from such stone, wood and iron throwing; handball, football, or hockey; coursing and cock-fighting, or other such idle games."