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When were arrows invented, though?
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When were arrows invented, though?
Approximately 500,000 years ago, when someone made a tiny spear. They just didn't know it was an arrow at the time.
I mean what is an arrow, but a much smaller spear?
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Blah blah bc time is backward, 9,000 is older than 8,999, now that we have that out of the way I wonder how they calculate the invention of the bow. Like they just haven't found one anywhere older then that. It's just green sticks and ropes at some point. Wonder what the chances are there was something prior that we don't know because it wasn't built long enough to last.
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Approximately 500,000 years ago, when someone made a tiny spear. They just didn't know it was an arrow at the time.
I mean what is an arrow, but a much smaller spear?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]There were those little flinger things that they'd put little spears on. Those might be considered proto arrows.
Yeah, atlatls had fletched arrows
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Blah blah bc time is backward, 9,000 is older than 8,999, now that we have that out of the way I wonder how they calculate the invention of the bow. Like they just haven't found one anywhere older then that. It's just green sticks and ropes at some point. Wonder what the chances are there was something prior that we don't know because it wasn't built long enough to last.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]It just says they were invented in 9k BC. That does exclude them also having been invented in 10k BC.
Edit: *doesn't exclude
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Blah blah bc time is backward, 9,000 is older than 8,999, now that we have that out of the way I wonder how they calculate the invention of the bow. Like they just haven't found one anywhere older then that. It's just green sticks and ropes at some point. Wonder what the chances are there was something prior that we don't know because it wasn't built long enough to last.
They rely on artifacts and art. So yeah, it's quite possible the bow was invented earlier, probably a bunch of times in a bunch of places.
People are smart, but we're smart in pretty regular and repeatable ways.
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this shit is so fucking funny bro
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Looks like they invented chain-mail right along with it.
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Approximately 500,000 years ago, when someone made a tiny spear. They just didn't know it was an arrow at the time.
I mean what is an arrow, but a much smaller spear?
In my archaeology/anthropology classes in college, we were taught to say “projectile points” instead of “arrowheads” for basically this reason.
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Looks like they invented chain-mail right along with it.
Image is probably scale armor rather than chainmail.
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They rely on artifacts and art. So yeah, it's quite possible the bow was invented earlier, probably a bunch of times in a bunch of places.
People are smart, but we're smart in pretty regular and repeatable ways.
i'd also say there's a difference between people making notches in a stick and tying a piece of string to it, and actually carving a bow and drying it.
Anyone can come up with the idea for and build a simple bow to test their idea, but figuring out how to make a proper bow takes iteration and is an investment.
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12025 Primitive Era: BC mythology as metrology
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There were those little flinger things that they'd put little spears on. Those might be considered proto arrows.
Yeah, atlatls had fletched arrows
Thanks, had forgotten "atlatl," gonna try it in NYT Spelling Bee next time it has those letters.
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This fucking guy thinks he can just bring back a joke from 8998 BC and make it work!
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Blah blah bc time is backward, 9,000 is older than 8,999, now that we have that out of the way I wonder how they calculate the invention of the bow. Like they just haven't found one anywhere older then that. It's just green sticks and ropes at some point. Wonder what the chances are there was something prior that we don't know because it wasn't built long enough to last.
9000+ BC - no arrow heads
8999 BC to present - butt loads of arrowheads
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This fucking guy thinks he can just bring back a joke from 8998 BC and make it work!
Something that has never occurred since time immemorial - a young woman did not fart on her husband's lap! ʱªʱªʱª(˃̣̣̥˂̣̣̥)
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i'd also say there's a difference between people making notches in a stick and tying a piece of string to it, and actually carving a bow and drying it.
Anyone can come up with the idea for and build a simple bow to test their idea, but figuring out how to make a proper bow takes iteration and is an investment.
also bowstring is a hell of a lot more sturdy than twine. probably took a lot of different iteration to find the right fiber/gut to use for the string, the right wood, just beyond getting the idea
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also bowstring is a hell of a lot more sturdy than twine. probably took a lot of different iteration to find the right fiber/gut to use for the string, the right wood, just beyond getting the idea
Nettle fibres are pretty easy to make into a string that would be suitable for using with a bow. Making a bow is a lot easier than making the perfect bow. It would have been an iterative process, improving over time.
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There were those little flinger things that they'd put little spears on. Those might be considered proto arrows.
Yeah, atlatls had fletched arrows
Would love to do some atlatl throwing again, not really sure if there is a way to legally do it in the park or somewhere like that though and my garden is far too short for it.
