About 300 years after the invention of the bow, which is crazy.
It meant that the value of archers was really low from a military point of view. Those nerds were useless.
Comment on 8999 BC
whimsy@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
When were arrows invented, though?
sunbytes@lemmy.world 3 months ago
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 3 months ago
About three years into Youtube. Everybody missed this Easter egg.
Alteon@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Approximately 500,000 years ago, when someone made a tiny spear. They just didn’t know it was an arrow at the time.
I mean what is an arrow, but a much smaller spear?
MajinBlayze@lemmy.world 3 months ago
There were those little flinger things that they’d put little speares on. Those might be considered proto arrows
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
Would love to do some atlatl throwing again, not really sure if there is a way to legally do it in the park or somewhere like that though and my garden is far too short for it.
MajinBlayze@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I wonder if a local archery range would let you do it. Probably have to byoa though
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Thanks, had forgotten “atlatl,” gonna try it in NYT Spelling Bee next time it has those letters.
corvi@lemm.ee 3 months ago
In my archaeology/anthropology classes in college, we were taught to say “projectile points” instead of “arrowheads” for basically this reason.