8999 BC

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• rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Blah blah bc time is backward, 9,000 is older than 8,999, now that we have that out of the way I wonder how they calculate the invention of the bow. Like they just haven’t found one anywhere older then that. It’s just green sticks and ropes at some point. Wonder what the chances are there was something prior that we don’t know because it wasn’t built long enough to last.

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  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They rely on artifacts and art. So yeah, it’s quite possible the bow was invented earlier, probably a bunch of times in a bunch of places.

    People are smart, but we’re smart in pretty regular and repeatable ways.

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      i’d also say there’s a difference between people making notches in a stick and tying a piece of string to it, and actually carving a bow and drying it.

      Anyone can come up with the idea for and build a simple bow to test their idea, but figuring out how to make a proper bow takes iteration and is an investment.

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  • LordGimp@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    9000+ BC - no arrow heads

    8999 BC to present - butt loads of arrowheads

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    • SippyCup@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      We have “arrowheads” as old as 72000 years old. Some found outside of Africa are 40ish thousand years old. We’re not certain what these objects are, but we’re pretty sure they’re arrowheads.

      The oldest evidence for a bow we’ve found is only 9000 years old. But if you think about what a bow is made of, it stands to reason that we wouldn’t find one much older than that.

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  • ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It just says they were invented in 9k BC. That does exclude them also having been invented in 10k BC.

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    • abruptly8951@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They were invented *by 9k bc :)

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  • sunbytes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They may have been mentioned/featured in things that last longer than the bows. Statues, pottery, writing on stone tablets.

    Also I think they find skeletons with flint arrowheads in them sometimes too.

    So it can be pieced together from lots of small, even partial data points.

    But we find new stuff all the time that changes what we thought.

    They found a 4000 year old bagless vacuum cleaner the other day.

    That last one was a joke.

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    • Dicska@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They found a 4000 year old bagless vacuum cleaner the other day.

      Yeah, it’s common knowledge that the bagless feature was introduced 3200 years ago.

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  • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    There’s always big error bars on these dates for that kind of reason. Actual archeologists are going to be careful with their language and say things like “the earliest evidence we have for bows is around 9000 BCE.”

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• whimsy@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  When were arrows invented, though?

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  • Alteon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?

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    • MajinBlayze@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      There were those little flinger things that they’d put little speares on. Those might be considered proto arrows

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    • corvi@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      In my archaeology/anthropology classes in college, we were taught to say “projectile points” instead of “arrowheads” for basically this reason.

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  • sunbytes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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.

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  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    About three years into Youtube. Everybody missed this Easter egg.

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• HowAbt2day@futurology.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This fucking guy thinks he can just bring back a joke from 8998 BC and make it work!

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Something that has never occurred since time immemorial - a young woman did not fart on her husband’s lap! ʱªʱªʱª(˃̣̣̥˂̣̣̥)

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• gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  this shit is so fucking funny bro

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• Saleh@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Looks like they invented chain-mail right along with it.

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  • phdepressed@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Image is probably scale armor rather than chainmail.

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• j4k3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  12025 Primitive Era: mythology in metrology

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