Making the Bow. Step 1. Choose wood wisely. The basis for any good bow is choosing the right wood. You’ll want to use hard woods such as hickory, oak, and maple.

Of course, this is some truly primitive tech—the bow and arrow is at least as old as the Last Stone Age (roughly between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago), with the oldest extant version of a bow ...

Archaeologists digging in a cave in southern France say they have unearthed the earliest evidence of bow and arrow use outside Africa. Grotte Mandrin, near Malataverne in the Rhône Valley, is a ...

More information: Laure Metz et al, Bow and arrow, technology of the first Modern humans in Europe 54,000 years ago at Mandrin, France, Science Advances (2023). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.add4675 . www ...