From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon May 05 2003 - 12:44:46 MDT
--- spike66 <spike66@attbi.com> wrote:
> Mike Lorrey wrote:
>
> > Perhaps if you want a truly 'natural' hunting experience, you
> should go
> > out in the woods in a loincloth and make your own bow with ash and
> gut,
> > chipping your arrowheads from flint...
>
> Why not take this all the way? One could argue that ash
> bows and flint arrows are modern technology (even if not
> a particularly advanced example) since they were cutting
> edge to some human groups only a couple hundred years ago.
Archaeological/anthropological evidence shows that the bow is at least
20,000 years old. That some cultures couldn't seem to advance beyond it
isn't our fault...
>
> I would suppose that the first use of weapons in humans
> was stones, hurled like a pitched baseball. Perhaps this
> even predated chasing carnivores from their kill using
> a burning branch.
Well, it all started with this big black monolith, see....
>
> Now that would be an interesting contest: see who can bag
> a rabbit or a squirrel using only hurled stones.
Done it. I even bagged a bat with a blowgun once...
=====
Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
- Gen. John Stark
"Pacifists are Objectively Pro-Fascist." - George Orwell
"Treason doth never Prosper. What is the Reason?
For if it Prosper, none Dare call it Treason..." - Ovid
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