A little out of date. Arrow points dating over 10,000 years old have been excavated from multiple sights across the US in the last 10 years. Most notably the Gault site in Texas where arrow points were excavated from stratified soil several feet below 13,000 year old Clovis points. I have personally found what people call bird points, (small stemmed archaic/woodland looking) dug from stratified soil in the same layer as Daltons on my property in Missouri. Personally I think bows became popular because of warfare and the ability to defend oneself against multiple opponents. You only need one shot to kill a deer. If a group of people are attacking it’s a different story. A bow holds a huge advantage as a defense weapon against attacks. A bow is no better than an atalatl for securing food when you only get one shot. During the ice age a bow would have been useless against megafauna such as mastodon, mammoth and short faced bears where an atalatl with a large point would be able take any of those down with one good shot. It’s the difference between a .22 cal rifle and .500 Weatherby magnum. One is for squirrels and the other is for rhinos and elephants.
The current consensus among archeologists is that bow and arrow technology is a relatively late innovation in Midwestern North America. Small points forms do not necessarily indicate bow and arrow projectile point technology was present on earlier sites.
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A little out of date. Arrow points dating over 10,000 years old have been excavated from multiple sights across the US in the last 10 years. Most notably the Gault site in Texas where arrow points were excavated from stratified soil several feet below 13,000 year old Clovis points.
I have personally found what people call bird points, (small stemmed archaic/woodland looking) dug from stratified soil in the same layer as Daltons on my property in Missouri.
Personally I think bows became popular because of warfare and the ability to defend oneself against multiple opponents. You only need one shot to kill a deer. If a group of people are attacking it’s a different story. A bow holds a huge advantage as a defense weapon against attacks. A bow is no better than an atalatl for securing food when you only get one shot. During the ice age a bow would have been useless against megafauna such as mastodon, mammoth and short faced bears where an atalatl with a large point would be able take any of those down with one good shot. It’s the difference between a .22 cal rifle and .500 Weatherby magnum. One is for squirrels and the other is for rhinos and elephants.
The current consensus among archeologists is that bow and arrow technology is a relatively late innovation in Midwestern North America. Small points forms do not necessarily indicate bow and arrow projectile point technology was present on earlier sites.
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