Re: bows in the cold?

From: David Dunham <david_at_...>
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 22:40:47 -0800


Bryan

>The steppe nomads in asia must have had to deal with
>deep cold, but I don't know if the necessarily used them much in
>winter (

IIRC the steppe nomads used composite bows.

Roderick's wood list leaves out cornel, which was at least used for Bronze Age bows. As it happens, I'd run across Osage Orange as a native American bow wood from an entirely different context.

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