Traditional Hunting with the Bow and Arrow: The Complete Guide

Traditional Hunting with the Bow and Arrow. The Complete Guide to Making and using the Bow and Arrow. This book teaches you how to make, use and hunt with the bow and arrow using traditional hunting tactics and techniques. The bow and arrow is a projectile weapon system (a bow with arrows) that predates recorded history and is common to most cultures. Archery is the art, practice, or skill of applying it. The bow and arrow was not the first composite projectile weapon to be invented. It was preceded by the sling and by spear throwers such as the atlatl of the Americas and the woomera of Australia. A number of cultures in historical times lacked the bow and arrow, and in others oral history records a time before its acquisition. The earliest potential arrow heads date from about 64,000 years ago in the South African Sibudu Cave. By 16,000 BCE flint points were being bound by sinews to split shafts. Fletching was being practiced, with feathers glued and bound to shafts.