12-04-2006, 07:55 PM
Quadratus:
Quote from the link in my last entry: "Some of his bows (Assyirian and Scythian) he admits are little more than 'fantasy bows' with little or no archaeological or scientific background. Others among his repertoire are faithful reproductions of historic bows (for example his Hungarian range of bows and his Turkish and Crimean Tartar bows.) "
So he does in fact not admit to have made the hungarian bow up. But if you are sceptical towards the study that he bases it on, fair enough. I don't know it. I guess his first priority is to make a working bow.
From what I have read the archaeological identification of these different namadic groups is flimsy, but in spite of this I have several times seen the assumption that a certain group has been associated with a certain bow, found somewhere around their teritory.
The books that József and I mention are the same, only I had the german version.
Das Hunnenreich
Author: Istvan Bona
Language: German
Format: Book (Illustrated), 294 pages
Publication Date: January 1991
ISBN: 9631333566
Tormod Osen
Quote from the link in my last entry: "Some of his bows (Assyirian and Scythian) he admits are little more than 'fantasy bows' with little or no archaeological or scientific background. Others among his repertoire are faithful reproductions of historic bows (for example his Hungarian range of bows and his Turkish and Crimean Tartar bows.) "
So he does in fact not admit to have made the hungarian bow up. But if you are sceptical towards the study that he bases it on, fair enough. I don't know it. I guess his first priority is to make a working bow.
From what I have read the archaeological identification of these different namadic groups is flimsy, but in spite of this I have several times seen the assumption that a certain group has been associated with a certain bow, found somewhere around their teritory.
The books that József and I mention are the same, only I had the german version.
Das Hunnenreich
Author: Istvan Bona
Language: German
Format: Book (Illustrated), 294 pages
Publication Date: January 1991
ISBN: 9631333566
Tormod Osen
