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stovenn t1_j9s1p5w wrote

Reply to comment by LoreChano in Homo sapiens may have brought archery to Europe about 54,000 years ago by Yazan_Research

> Using wood's elastic proprieties is not obvious at all

There is a kind of snare (spring snare) which bends a still-alive sapling with a rope joining to a noose and trigger on the ground which can catch mammals images

This is simpler than a bow and could have been on the inventive pathway towards a bow and arrow.

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LoreChano t1_j9ta6tk wrote

I personally think that bows began as something just like that, something else, maybe another tool used for a completely different purpose,or a musical instrument (there are instruments similar to bows in some places in Africa) and someone realized that they could use if for launching arrows.

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stovenn t1_j9v04tk wrote

That's an interesting idea.

I'd be very interested to know when the earliest stringed musical instruments appeared.

(And before that the earliest use of "string" or "rope" in some form).

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