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  2. Longbow - Wikipedia

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    Picture of a longbow made with wood, 2013. A longbow is a type of tall bow that makes a fairly long draw possible. Longbows for hunting and warfare have been made from many different woods in many cultures; in Europe they date from the Paleolithic era and, since the Bronze Age, were made mainly from yew, or from wych elm if yew was unavailable.

  3. History of archery - Wikipedia

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    Longbowmen archers of the Middle Ages.. Archery, or the use of bow and arrows, was probably developed in Africa by the later Middle Stone Age (approx. 70,000 years ago). It is documented as part of warfare and hunting from the classical period (where it figures in the mythologies of many cultures) [1] until the end of the 19th century, when bow and arrows was made functionally obsolete by the ...

  4. English longbow - Wikipedia

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    Replicas were made and when tested had draw forces of from 100 to 185 lbf (445 to 823 N). [8] In 1980, before the finds from the Mary Rose, Robert E. Kaiser published a paper stating that there were five known surviving longbows: [1] The first bow comes from the Battle of Hedgeley Moor in 1464, during the Wars of the Roses. A family who lived ...

  5. Bow and arrow - Wikipedia

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    In the Canadian Arctic, bows were made until the end of the 20th century for hunting caribou, for instance at Igloolik. [27] The bow has more recently been used as a weapon of tribal warfare in some parts of Sub-Saharan Africa; an example was documented in 2009 in Kenya when Kisii people and Kalenjin people clashed, resulting in four deaths ...

  6. Holmegaard bow - Wikipedia

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    Initially, the Holmegaard bows were believed to have been made "backwards", that is with wood removed from the back and the belly made convex. [2] This may be the result of a comparison with the English longbow that has a flat back and a convex belly. Many successful replicas were made in this fashion even though working the back of the bow ...

  7. Crossbow - Wikipedia

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    The earliest known crossbows were made in the first millennium BC, as early as the 7th century BC in ancient China and as early as the 1st century AD in Greece (known as gastraphetes). [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Crossbows brought about a major shift in the role of projectile weaponry in wars, such as during Qin's unification wars and later Han campaigns ...

  8. ‘Like going to the moon’: Why this is the world’s most ...

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    It wasn’t just large cargo ships, either; passenger ships made the same route. There’s even a monument at the tip of Cape Horn, in memorial of the more than 10,000 sailors who are believed to ...

  9. Archery - Wikipedia

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    The arrows were made of pine and consisted of a main shaft and a 15–20 cm (5.9–7.9 in) ... but this is not allowed for other bow types under World Archery.