The Genius Of Bows And Arrows At Least 64,000 Years Old
Credit: University of Tübingen
Using archaeological finds and ethnological parallels, the two researchers reconstructed the steps needed to make a bow and arrows. These are complimentary tools – separate, but developed interdependently. The bow is the controlling element, while the arrows can be used more flexibly and are interchangeable. About 2.5 million years ago, humans first used tools to make other tools then to make tools assembled from different parts to make a unit with particular qualities, such as wooden spears with stone spearheads (ca. 200,000-300,000 years ago.) The bow and arrow and other complementary tool sets made it possible for prehistoric humans to greatly increase the flexibility of their reactions.
There are many basic complementary tool sets: needle and thread, fishing rod and line, hammer and chisel. The bow and arrow are a particularly complex example. The reconstruction of the technique shows that no less than ten different tools are needed to manufacture a simple bow and arrows with foreshafts. It takes 22 raw materials and three semi-finished goods (binding materials, multi-component glue) and five production phases to make a bow, and further steps to make the arrows to go with it. The study was able to show a high level of complexity in the use of tools at an early stage in the history of homo sapiens.
The Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities project “The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans” (ROCEEH) incorporates archaeologists, paleoanthropologists, palaeobiologists and geographers, working together to find out where the first humans arose, where they moved to in Africa and Eurasia, and why. The project covers the time between three million years ago and the last glacial maximum 20,000 years ago.
Credit: University of Tübingen
Contacts and sources:
PD Dr. Miriam Haidle
Coordinator
“The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans”
Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum
Senckenberganlage 25
D-60325 Frankfurt/Main
mhaidle[at]senckenberg.de
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Humans used tools 2.5 million years ago? I thought humans hadn’t “evolved” by then!
I’ll have to write them and ask how they arrived at the dates for the things in this article. (you can’t date sedimentary rock so they found it in igneous rock?)
thats the 64$ question, how old are they
if they are that old then they’re probably not even alive an surely couldn’t read what you wrote because of a language barrier .
The Genius Of Bows And Arrows At Least 64,000 Years ago, and we’ve been going down hill ever since.
Those bows shown are recent , and seem to be shown as an example they are not 64,000 years old .
Everyone should be proficient with a compound bow, silent, accurate and lethal.
more BS. There were advanced, globally interacting “civilisations” with a common language.
The “western” historians are disproven but their lies (or ignorance) continue to be shoved down as the Truth
The Busman were more sophisticated than us so called modern man – they only killed what they could eat. Modern man is killing for the sake of killing – trophy hunting and helping to make animals extinct.
Carbon dating is flawed. Human history goes back from the 21st century to around the creation of the heavens and earth around 4,000 BC. and then add 2,000 years AD and human history is around 6,000 years old. There is no scientific evidence that people lived 64,000 years ago.