ButtNutly t1_j9ru4be wrote on February 24, 2023 at 2:38 AM

Reply to comment by LoreChano in Homo sapiens may have brought archery to Europe about 54,000 years ago by Yazan_Research

>Using wood's elastic proprieties is not obvious at all.

Anyone who's been in a forest on a windy day would disagree.

>Bows also have no "prototype stage", a bow either works perfectly or it is useless.

Nonsense.

LoreChano t1_j9t9tpa wrote on February 24, 2023 at 12:05 PM

What you say makes no sense. Green, alive wood is completely different and it's not logical at all to escalate that into a bow.

I'm into archery and have tried making a bow myself, using metal tools. It was incredibly hard and didn't result in something that could be used to hunt real game. Imagine doing that with stone tools and no previous knowledge.

And no, bows have no prototype stage. Unless the bow was something else and someone realized that it could be used to launch projectiles, which personally is my favorite theory.