Early Humans Experimented To Get Bow And Arrow Just Right, Findings Suggest

Science Daily ^ | 6-11-2008 | University of Missouri-Columbia.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Of course, the ultimate development of the arrow was the "everful quiver". Invented by the elves of Middle-earth, you could fire dozens of them for hours and never run out of arrows.

[exit82]

You mean they didn’t have OSHA then? ;)

[going hot]

The first bow must have been square, with the arrow having a point on both ends.

Excellent for richochet shots.

[Dilbert San Diego]

I want to know what the carbon footprint of early humans was. I want to know why they were such a violent culture that they needed weapons in the first place.

[Beowulf9]

"When the bow and arrow appeared in North America, roughly 1,500 years ago..." "The interesting part is that they didn’t have bows and arrows until 500 AD. That’s a little hard to believe". took me a minute to figure out how you arrived at that, nice observation. Jesus must've not started the calendar yet or AD must stand for After...Duh? http://www.roman-emperors.org/big500.htm

[mylife]

Maybe we can get congress to fund a study!

No sh***er here. I know of a fellow who got a Gov grant to study if birds were “right winged” or “left winged”

[wardaddy]

I don’t believe it either.

I think they have found arrowheads 30,000 years ago in the NW Sahara.

and from at least 12,000 years ago in North America

[dennisw]

You must know what a recursive bow is .... Those who invented it are in a new movie “Mongol” Hope it gets yr way

Movie is about Genghis Khan

[Williams]

Interesting enough, but you mean some people actually think humans invented a perfect arrowhead all at once, without having to experiment with the design? Do we really need a scientific study to tell us this stuff?

[dennisw]

“Warriors of the Steppes” ping

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGIH_enUS269US271&q=%22%22Warriors+of+the+Steppes%22%22

[dr_lew]

What’s the Star Trek ( TOS ) episode where Spock and Kirk, I think improvise a bow and arrow weapon, and when they use it, the arrow is barely propelled at all, and flies sideways and looks like they just threw it ?

The “point” being, how WOULD you get the idea for this?

[mylife]

I’ll venture that the atlatl preceded the bow http://www.atlatl.com/

[mylife]

Kinda like “whippin” Apples off the end of sticks ;)

[Squeako]

Actually the bow looked pretty much as it does now, and the arrows did too. It just took them a while to get the string on the backside of the bow. They finally got it right after about 30 cavemen (thought to belong to the United Socialist Democrat Caveweapon Builders Union) impaled themselves in the throat.

Sort of like the first gun:

[shibumi]

"The “point” being, how WOULD you get the idea for this?"


"It was an inspired guess."

- Eric Idle

[dr_lew]

BROOKS (as 2,000 year old man): We spoke Rock. Basic Rock...Two hundred years before Hebrew, there was the Rock language. Or Rock talk.
REINER (as interviewer): Could you give us an example of that?
BROOKS: Yes. 'Hey, don't throw that rock at me! What are you doing with that rock? Put down that rock!'

BTW, it has occurred to me that this joke, while it acknowledges the primevality of violence, takes the pacifist side with its representation of the 2000 year old man's resort to pleading. I think this is the impression it leaves subjectively as well; that Brooks' character has somehow prevailed over the absurdity of violence. At any rate, it's politically laden.

[mylife]

“And then again on Tuesday morning....”

Michael Palin

[CurlyDave]

Early Humans Experimented To Get Bow And Arrow Just Right, Findings Suggest

Wow! And here I was, just believing that this was how it had worked since every other technology in humanity's repertoire worked this way...

[uglybiker]

Early Humans Experimented To Get Bow And Arrow Just Right, Findings Suggest

[SunkenCiv]

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	Gods Graves Glyphs	Thanks Blam. Despite the guffaws on this thread, this is pretty interesting. Sidebar: There are "Old World" Stone Age town sites filled with arrowheads (also fired clay slingstones) from (taa-daa!) battles when those towns were apparently attacked and perhaps sacked -- coinciding with mass burials, and numerous apparently simultaneous individual burials of people killed by arrow wounds (the arrowheads were in the skeleton). Makes one wonder how long ago the Americas would have to have been populated across Beringia for the immigrants to not know the bow. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are Blam, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
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