what ancient cultures mastered the bow & arrow?and/or where did it allstart?

Question

i will say native americans started it.just for sake of argument.

Answer 1

predates recorded history, and you might be better off trying to name those who did not master it, everyone used them all with success enough to eat and survive or we never would hear of them. the history of nations is rife with stories of new advancements in military uses and defense.

Answer 2

I would have to do research to find out all the cultures who have mastered the bow & arrow and where it all started. I know that they had bow and arrows in BC times, so it's been around for a VERY long time. I know warriors like the Spartans and Romans used bows & arrows. They may have used swoards and sheilds more, but they also had bows & arrows. You know they had it back in the days of King Richard (do I have the right king ? Robin Hood ), and of course like you have already mentioned Native Americans. But Native Americans were Hundreds and Thousands of years after the first bows & arrows. Oh yeah.... didn't warrior Amazon Women use them too ?

Answer 3

According to Encyclopedia Britannica, archery's importance as a cultural advance ranks with the development of speed and the art of making fire. The use of the bow appears in folklore from over 3000 years ago, although its invention probably predates that era.

The development of archery followed a course of key innovations by many historical cultures. About 3500 BC., Egyptians were using bows as tall as themselves. Their arrowheads, originally constructed of flint, were later made of bronze. Almost 2000 years later, the Assyrians developed the shorter recurve bow, which provided more power and easier handling. One central Asian clan, the Parthians, became famous for their ability to shoot backwards from a galloping horse, making the Parthian shot a meaningful phrase in our language. At about 1200 BCE, the Hittites developed the skill of shooting from moving chariots, and around 500 AD, the Romans, formerly second-rate archers, began to draw the arrow to the face rather than the chest, giving the shot more accuracy.

Answer 4

bows and arrows were used by stone age people, we know this because archaeologists have found stone arrow heads and carbon dated them.

ghengis khan and the mongols mastered using the bow and arrow an horses, that was 1206 - 1405 which pre-dates native americans

medieval british soldiers were famously skilled with the longbow and they played a key role in the battle of hastings in 1066

even before this places like the persians, the greeks, romans, etc. used bows and arrows and were quite skilled with them

it's kinda hard to say because we dont know how skilled stone age people were with the bow

Answer 5

you shuold understand that there were no particular ancient group which started the use of that hunting-battle gear. although cultures rose at different era, there were no record of copying the technology from others.

i came from phils and out ethnic groups here have varied bows and arrows and manner of using it. Variation in design and purpose just proved that copying wasnt the reason for coming up with this hunting-war gear.

Instinct, i believe, was the cause of it all.

Answer 6

I HONESTLY believe it began as no more then a childs toy.

Some kid found a stick that bent, put twine or vine on it and there you go.

Who did it FIRST I don't think we'll ever really know.

And cave paintings here depict bows back to the last ice age.

Answer 7

It seems to have been independently invented many times in many places.

Answer 8

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