Archaeologists have traced the origins of what may have been the deadliest weapon of the Bronze Age — the composite bow. A new study, led by Gabriel...
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Iconographic evidence of double-concave and angular bows from the Akkadian and New Kingdom periods in Mesopotamia and Egypt. Credit: Šaffa, G. / CC BY 4.0 Archaeologists have traced the origins of what may have been the deadliest weapon of the Bronze Age — the composite bow. A new study, led by Gabriel Šaffa and published in the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, challenges long-held beliefs about when and where this revolutionary weapon first appeared. The findings reveal that the composite bow, famed for its power and precision, was a late innovation of the Bronze Age, not an early one as previously believed. The rise of a deadly innovation For centuries, the bow and arrow were...
Archaeologists have traced the origins of what may have been the deadliest weapon of the Bronze Age — the composite bow. A new study, led by Gabriel...
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