[varmintman]

The original super weapon on the planet was the atlatl, not the bow. The task to hand was killing hominids, particularly Neanderthals, and arrows would not have gotten them killed quickly enough...

(www.themandus.org)

[USNBandit]

Correct, but since your common knowledge wasn’t subject to peer review it can’t be considered science. You need peer review to take obvious observations and twist them into grandious sweeping conclusions.