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Basque stone lifting

Also known as Harri-jasotzea · harri-jasotzaile

Basque stone lifting: photograph by Alberto Cabello from Vitoria Gasteiz
Photo: Alberto Cabello from Vitoria Gasteiz, CC BY 2.0, source on Wikimedia Commons

Lift a heavy rounded stone from ground to shoulder as many times as possible in a fixed time, choosing stone size before each attempt.

Heritage note

Part of the living heritage of France.

Origins

Usually placed in the era of Classical Worlds (about 1000 BCE to 500 CE), although its exact origins are uncertain, within the cultural world of Celtic and Atlantic Europe.

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