RE: (TFT) Bows and ARROWs

["Gadda, Charles A" <charles.a.gadda@lmco.com>]

I second that, as well.

Interesting point: Paleolithic hunters would use javelins with detachable
points. The shaft would sometimes be tied to a long tether. When the javelin
struck the target, the shaft would pop loose from the head. The unlucky
target would then have the projectile point painfully embedded in it, while
the wily hunter would use the tether to recover the shaft, put on another
head, and repeat the process. Pretty clever...

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	grabowski [SMTP:grabowski@erols.com]
> Sent:	Monday, July 19, 1999 9:31 PM
> To:	tft@brainiac.com
> Subject:	(TFT) Bows and ARROWs
> 
> Dave writes:
> 
> <I think Bowyer should still be 2 IQ points.  Certainly a few specialized
> neanderthal bow makers can afford that.>
> 
> TOTALLY agreed!!!  The people who knap flint at the museum I work at will
> tell you that the hardest part of making a flint tipped arrow is not the
> few
> minutes of knapping the flint but the skill it takes in making the shaft.
> This is why most arrow heads were easily removeable from the shaft of the
> arrow.  That way the shaft could be pulled out of a target, be it person
> or
> animal, so that the shaft would not break.  Otherwise, the time and effort
> and cost of the arrow or bolt would have been lost.
> 
> 
> 
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