Battle in the shade of arrows

[Agonis]

Regarding the question of David about the types of arrows in Bronze age, the following image of Lascaux hunters (dated 17000 bc)

http://blogodiversity.files.wordpress.co...nters1.jpg


shows the use 4 differnt bows from our ancestors, during a hunting scene


you can clearly see (from top to down):

longbow/selffow
simple curved (primitive)
double convex (presented exactly the same as the bows that Appolo/Artemis carry in Greek potteries)
reflex (palin-tonon) - possibly a composite bow ?(many people will argue on this)


the reality is that the history of bow-making is extremely difficult to be standardized, as well as impossible to find out which bow type influenced the others and when



Adonis