Re: Bow and Arrow Dating

Have you ever tried making a bow and arrow by hand out of natural
materials? It's not a simple matter. Trying to find a material (or
*combination* of materials) that will bend but not break after
repeated use takes a lot of trial and error.


Well homo sapien sapient had 170,000 years to do it before 13000 bc,
and homo sapien had at least 300,000 additional years before that.
That's plenty of trial and error.

And then they expect us to believe that hundreds of different
populations discovered the technology independently, all within 5000
years of each other?

In this 170,000 years they invented painting, stone tipped spears,
atlatls, bolas, perfectly represented sculptures, hafted axes, the
flute, the domestication of animals, seafairing vessels and long
distance navigation, weaved clothing, and possibly even the
cultivation of rice and the firing of pottery, but they couldn't
figure out the bow?

Alot of prehistoric art with unknown date has pictures of men wielding
bows.

Could it be that the reason we don't find them before 13,000 BC is
because they weren't used as extensively due to their inneffectiveness
vs megafauna and because before that date man had not yet learned to
fit arrow heads on them?

Or is there some other smoking gun that proves they were not in use
before 13000?



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