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Of bows and arrows

A plethora of inclusive and dissatisfying truths

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Gary A Schlueter
Dec 30, 2022
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    “Despite endless academic speculation on the subject for almost 200 years, we don’t know when archery originated,” says Kris De Decker in the Low-Tech Magazine story ‘When Lethal Weapons Grew on Trees.’ I read somewhere that they might go back almost 100,000 years in Africa, but De Decker says otherwise. 

     Google tells us “The oldest known eviden…

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