Stone Age bows and woodland archaeology
By woodlandstv
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Remains of bows found from the Stone Age suggest our ancestors were taller and stronger than we think - with Allan Course.
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Argh, I wish you could go more in depth. there is a lot of time spent on the "War Bow" and very little on this subject.
Great info on the bow and it's user very informative. Cheers from south Texas.
He has to be your long lost ancestor. 🙂
Really nice bow and arrow, what is it made from?
@5tonyvvvv
I know of only one guy personally that knows the how to… Gary Davis. Yet there is a Vid that Mike Loades did that goes into the making but only the Modern methods are demonstrated. Archery its History and its Forms. is the name of it.
what aload of shit
coz i cud make a better bow out of lego
Wow, what a bunch of silly comments!! The string is loose, because the bow ISN'T STRUNG!!! And it does look like a well made bow. Guessing the wood type from the video is tough, but my guess would be elm.
Im not so sure you can infer the height of the archer by the length of a bow from 5000 years ago. That would only be fair if we know that they understood bows like we do. They may have simply thought the bigger the better.
great talk,very enjoyable.thanks.
cooper68ns
November 22, 2010