[ProtectOurFreedom]

“footed arrow”

I didn’t know that using different materials in different parts of the shaft had a name.

Ötzi lived between 3350 and 3105 BC. These finds are even older, 5000 BC.

Amazing, isn’t it?

[gundog]

Yeah. Cool stuff. Even a lot of today’s traditional archers shy away from footed shafts. I guess cedar is cheap, and sufficient to the purpose. I forget what Otzi’s specific load-out was, but I believe he had extra leading-end components. That would allow him to salvage the rear parr of a shaft and “reload” it, if the head was damaged, or remained stuck in a critter.

There must have been some armorers working in centers of trade.

Condor makes an homage to Otzi’s knife....