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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: tdeland on October 04, 2013, 12:22:33 pm

Title: New neolithic bow found in the melting snow!
Post by: tdeland on October 04, 2013, 12:22:33 pm

http://m.livescience.com/40058-snow-reveals-neolithic-bow-arrow.html

I don't know about ya'll but I think this one will solve the debate about holmegaard style...
So cool, those slate arrows are nice I want to try it.

Title: Re: New neolithic bow found in the melting snow!
Post by: rossfactor on October 04, 2013, 12:33:21 pm

Love these finds! Those Slate tipped arrows must have weighed a ton!  Look how sharp those shoulders are near.

Gabe

Title: Re: New neolithic bow found in the melting snow!
Post by: TimPotter on October 04, 2013, 01:37:33 pm

I think this is a great find as well, but I fail to understand it's relating to Holmegaard bows. I thought this looked more like a "D" cross-section bow, ELB style. Giving more rise to the theory that a narrow round belly bow came before the flat bow. The arrows are very interesting.

Title: Re: New neolithic bow found in the melting snow!
Post by: JackCrafty on October 04, 2013, 03:27:51 pm

 8)

Title: Re: New neolithic bow found in the melting snow!
Post by: k-hat on October 04, 2013, 10:59:36 pm

So they make it sound as though the bow and arrows were found together.  Hmmmm, guess that hunter was using his great great great great great great great great great great grandaddy's hunting arrows

 ;)

Title: Re: New neolithic bow found in the melting snow!
Post by: Joec123able on October 04, 2013, 11:35:11 pm

Quote from: k-hat on October 04, 2013, 10:59:36 pm

So they make it sound as though the bow and arrows were found together.  Hmmmm, guess that hunter was using his great great great great great great great great great great grandaddy's hunting arrows

 ;)

Lol yea I was thinking the same thing about the arrows being dated thousands more years older then the bow

Title: Re: New neolithic bow found in the melting snow!
Post by: tdeland on October 05, 2013, 11:57:26 am

As for Holmegaard I was looking at the last section of the limbs. the tips have a shelf and are thicker than the rest... looks like static to me...
http://i.livescience.com/images/i/000/057/469/original/bow-fragments.jpg?1380635648

Title: Re: New neolithic bow found in the melting snow!
Post by: PatM on October 05, 2013, 01:32:31 pm

The oldest of the arrows were possibly thousands of years older. Why is that wrong? If people hunted reindeer for thousands of years on the same snow patch there is no reason why a whole set of gear couldn't be lost right on top of an arrow or two that was left behind a few thousand years before? An archaeologist could come along and gather them all up as one set before realizing later that a few arrows don't belong in the set.
 Not really any different from a garbage dump midden containing artifacts that could be thousands of years apart and found right next to each other.