did the native americans invent the bow and arrow independetnyl from europe?

Question

i always picture native americans hunting with bow and arrows but i know they came over through alaksa very long ago and I think it is weird since i can't see the bow and arrow being use theat long ago

Answer 1

Bow was not invented in Europe to begin with it is a simple technology that multiple civilizations isolated from each other developed. So yes the native americans developed archery independently from Eurasia since they settled the Americas when before Rome and Greece existed. Now with firearms that is something that Europeans introduce to them.

Answer 2

Bow And Arrow Native American

Answer 3

Actually the bow most Native Americans used is closer in style to the Asiatic Compsite Reflex bow. This does not mean that they had to have inherited the bow from someone else. Native tribes were developing their own ways of hunting at the same time that Europeans were. They simply had no reason to expand their civilization beyond what they had.

Answer 4

Native American Archery

Answer 5

Um..no, they didn't.

The bow and arrow had been used for thousands of years in Europe. Ever hear of the deadliest sharpshooters in History, the English Longbowmen? At the time of the age of exploration, the Europeans had started to use gunpowder and guns.

The Native Americans, being a primitive people, still used bows and arrows because they didn't have the resources, technology, or communication advantages to build guns.

Answer 6

i watched a show in which some archeologists believe the closest related peoples to native americans are the french. alltho lots of natives came across the ice bridge, its believed earlier than that some traveled by sea from france, they can only find two different peoples who made arrow heads in a period when its believed the earliest natives made it to america, one of those type of arrow heads came from france. So i believe the bow actually came from europe.

Answer 7

Archaeologically, we have no unambiguous evidence for bows or arrows predating the latest Upper Paleolithic or even the Mesolithic. However, we also have no spearthrowers older than the one from the Solutrean occupation of Combe-Saunière (France), which dates to ca. 21,000 BP. This is in spite of now having abundant evidence that suggests that some pointed stone tools likely were used as dart tips much earlier than that date (Shea 2006). Thus, not having found remains of bows or arrows prior to the latest Upper Paleolithic does not de facto preclude their existence before that time.

So far, the best empirical study of the development of projectile technology in Africa and Eurasia is an excellent paper recently published in the Journal of Archaeological Science by John J. Shea of Stony Brook University. Shea uses measurements on the lithic components of known arrows, darts and spear to infer the most likely function(s) of various forms of pointed stone implements from Middle Stone Age, Middle Paleolithic and Early Upper Paleolithic assemblages from Africa, the Levant and Europe. Using Tip Cross-Sectional Area (TCSA) as the basis of his analysis, Shea shows rather convincingly that projectile weapons of the sort hinted at by Mellars and others do not appear to have been in use in the Old World prior to ca. 50,000 BP. And after that date, measurements align all Early Upper Paleolithic pointed stone implements with values for darts rather than arrowheads. Admittedly, the case for backed implements is less certain in that paper, but what data are available do not disagree with Shea’s conclusions. Therefore, the available evidence argues strongly against the case for bow and arrow technology having been an intrinsic component of the behavioral package that would have permitted the expansion of the original modern human populations.

So, while impressions are always useful in highlighting research questions to be tested empirically, they cannot be taken at face value as true statements, especially not in paleoanthropology. For some unfortunate reason, this habit of stating something and subsequently assuming that it is true continues unabated in Paleolithic archaeology while almost no Pleistocene human paleontological studies manage to get through peer-review without solid empirical data and meaningful statistical tests to support them.

References:

McBrearty, S., and A. S. Brooks. 2000. The revolution that wasn’t: a new interpretation of the origin of modern human behavior. Journal of Human Evolution 39:453–563.

Mellars, P. 2002. Archaeology and the origins of modern humans: European and African perspectives. In The Speciation of Modern Homo Sapiens (T. Crow, ed.), pp. 31-48. Proceedings the British Academy, no. 106. London, UK, British Academy.

Mellars, P. 2006. Why did modern human populations disperse from Africa ca. 60,000 years ago? A new model. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103:9381-9386.

Shea, J. J. 2006. The origins of lithic projectile point technology: evidence from Africa, the Levant, and Europe. Journal of Archaeological Science 33:823-846.

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