Stone Age bows and woodland archaeology
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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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12 comments so far
cooper68ns
November 22, 2010
great talk,very enjoyable.thanks.
Andrew Arndts
November 22, 2010
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.
JOE GARZA
November 22, 2010
Great info on the bow and it's user very informative. Cheers from south Texas.
hungryjack
November 22, 2010
He has to be your long lost ancestor. 🙂
Falun
November 26, 2010
Really nice bow and arrow, what is it made from?
Andrew Arndts
April 4, 2011
@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.
Daniel Woods
December 8, 2011
what aload of shit
Daniel Woods
January 19, 2012
coz i cud make a better bow out of lego
J R's Place
June 28, 2015
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.
Alexander
October 8, 2016
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.