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For Discussion: How did the idea of a bow originate?

We will never be able to pin down a time in history as to when the bow was first concieved and used. It would be interesting though to try and theorize as to how the idea of the first bow came to be....

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I have always thought that it was form somebody starting a fire with a bow drill and go bored and launched the fire stick and the guy across the fire

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The first was probably an sapling bow strung together with cordage and untillered. It's what I did as a kid. Tim and Marc may have as well. Jawge http://mysite.verizon.net/georgeandjoni

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I agree the first was probably an untillered sapling bow.The "how it came" can never be known and the posabilities are countless.If you've ever followed someone in thick cover that is not considerate...

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Keep in mind that in most parts of the world, the atlatl or spearthrower, was the precursor to the bow. So folks already were feeding themselves with stone tipped projectiles that functioned quite a...

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I would suspect that it came about in different areas, not just one, likely as some suggested above, maybe even a catapult first, I bet once the first one came along they evolved very quickly into the...

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Re: For Discussion: How did the idea of a bow originate?

Steve, the atlatl definitely came first. Was used for thousands of years prior to the bow in most areas. Oldest evidence of spearthrowers are out of Europe. About 25,000 years before present. Not to...

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Probably easier to bring down large Ice Age mammals with a dart. Then as the fauna changed to smaller versions the bow came about. What do you think? Jawgehttp://mysite.verizon.net/georgeandjoni

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BTW the bow never came about in Australia. Jawgehttp://mysite.verizon.net/georgeandjoni

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I think the "idea" of the bow came from hunters walking through the low trees, and having a branch swing back into the head of the second hunter in line after the first one pushed it out of the way,...

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Yeah but they had the BOOMERANG !!!!!! M

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Re: For Discussion: How did the idea of a bow originate?

Yes, the boomerang. Don't have to look for arrows. Nicve. Jawgehttp://mysite.verizon.net/georgeandjoni

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I think atlatls did not necessarily have anything to do with the invention of bows. The bow might have been invented by people living along some big river (like Nile or Amazon) and getting most of...

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I see many comments as to what an early bow probably looked like and how and why it was used, but I wonder what the divine inspiration was to propel a stick from a bent stick with string? Unlike the...

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I was sitting here trying to think of things we did as kids that we basicaly discovered just by playing, the catapult I think is discoverd and used by most children on their own, I tend to think our...

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The scenarios listed which could have produced bows may have all happened on their own..Naturally we will never know what was first..When I look at native bows and arrows in amazon, and Guinea regions...

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We tend to think that great inventions were done by coincidence, but it might as well that people in the past deliberately sat down to find more efficient methods of hunting. When looking at pictures...

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I would agree that there's a good chance a child cobbled together the first bow and arrow. But then again, the creative adult minds with which I'm acquainted are all pretty childish at times, so it...

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