People in North America adopted the bow and arrow as replacement weapons for the dart and atlatl about 1400 years ago, ...

A North America study finds the bow and arrow arrived about 1,400 years ago, but its impact differed sharply by region.

For thousands of years, prehistoric hunters across western North America relied on the atlatl, a powerful dart-throwing device, to take down their prey. However, a recent comprehensive study reveals ...

A study clarifies the date of an important technological milestone: the adoption of the bow and arrow in western North ...

In A Nutshell Researchers dated 136 preserved organic weapons from western North America and found the bow and arrow appeared ...

THE SOUND OF the drops hitting my rain jacket seemed to echo in my ears as I sat against the soggy oak tree, the lightweight sycamore-and-marblewood recurve resting in my lap, my arrow fletchings ...

Some of the earliest writings — including those inscribed on papyrus in Egypt and later in ancient Greece and Rome — contain recipes for making medicines. Finding physical proof, however, that ...

Few things in life bring as much joy as standing in your own backyard, slinging arrows into a target. To do that, you need room and a target. We can’t help you with the range space, but we can help ...

A few short years ago, major crossbow brands like Ravin and Tenpoint were in a race to break the 500-feet-per-second mark, and both were successful. I tested and hunted extensively with such blazing ...

I’ve been testing crossbows for Field & Stream for more than a decade, and I’ve always been fascinated by the changing design trends from one year to the next. Blistering speed and boasts of 100-yard ...

History’s most impressive hoard of ancient Greek artifacts includes numerous amphoras, terra-cotta lamps, glass vessels, coins, jewelry and statues. Brett Seymour / WHOI More than 4,500 miles from ...

Situated on a rocky peninsula on the Black Sea, the more than 3,000-year-old site of Nessebar was originally a Thracian settlement (Menebria). At the beginning of the 6th century BC, the city became a ...