8999 BC

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• rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    9000+ BC - no arrow heads

    8999 BC to present - butt loads of arrowheads

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  • ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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• whimsy@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  When were arrows invented, though?

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  • Alteon@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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• HowAbt2day@futurology.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  this shit is so fucking funny bro

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• Saleh@feddit.org ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • phdepressed@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Image is probably scale armor rather than chainmail.

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• j4k3@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  12025 Primitive Era: mythology in metrology

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