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Question: How did the American Indians discover the 'bow and arrow' when it was invented on a different Continent!?
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The Huns indeed!. I don't think so!. The origins of the bow and arrow are prehistoric; bone arrow points dating to 61,000 years ago have been found at Sibudu Cave in South Africa!. Why everyone ignores the obvious is beyond me!.

But to answer the question, maybe it's harmonic resonance or the hundredth monkey theory!. Check it out: http://pure-research!.net/healing/light/m!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

A lot of cultures have discovered the bow and arrow at some stage!. It is also used in parts of Africa, the Middle East and all over Asia!.

Robert Hardy's "The Longbow: A social And Military History", which is pretty much the standard text on the longbow's history, suggests that the idea behind the bow and arrow comes naturally to anyone that's ever bent back and released a small tree or a sapling!.

You see the tree snap back into an upright position and it's not a big leap to imagine harnessing that energy to launch something like a rock or, better still, an arrow!.

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Why so confident of where it was 'invented!?' The geography of the planet looked very differently thousands of years ago!.!.!.it is not inconcievable that people's nomadic behaviour allowed them to cross land which we see as separate now, but also those answers which basically describe necessity being the mother of invention have demonstrated to you, surely, the fallacy of believing that some races are more intelligent or inventive than others! I thought the answer regarding the Australian aborigines is excellent!. They did not need the bow and arrow, the boomerang proved more effective for them, but look at the other ways they adapted to hunter gathering in such a harsh environment!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

You wonder how "American Indians" "discovered" the technology needed for bows and arrows when it was "obviously" invented on another continent -- a continent they had no contact with until the arrival of Europeans!.!.!.!. Yes, I am able to read what you did not have to say!.

Here is my answer, whether you want it or not: When it can be proven, beyond ALL doubt, exactly when and where the first bow and arrow were "invented", I will be inclined to believe that one "race" is more "intelligent" than all others!.

Ask yourself this question: How did the Europeans ever discover that marvelous time-keeping device called a "calendar" when it was invented on a continent those Europeans didn't even know about!? I am referring to the Mayan calendar, the "proto-type" of which was in use centuries before the Romans invaded Britain, yet is more accurate than even the Gregorian calendar (named for Pope Gregory XIII) we use today!.

Something so simple and as basic as the bow and arrow has been used by nearly all of the world's cultures throughout history!. One of those cultures which appears to have not used the bow and arrow happens to be the Aborigines of Australia; perhaps **they** never needed the bow and arrow!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

While it is possible that the Native Americans developed the the technology themselves this is merely one option!. We should not be inclined to overlay our retrospective view on the development of technology; to suggest that the idea of a bow is plainly obvious to anyone who has observed "springy materials" in nature is clearly false!. People (like us) managed to miss this "plainly obvious" technology for 70 millenia and utilised javelins & throwing sticks, an adequate but much inferior missile system!.
Very early (more than 20,000BC) heads have been found in Europe & the Levant but no diffinative evidence supports that these would have lauched with a "stored energy" mechanism until depictions appear c!.9000BC (but its safe to assume they're a fair bit older than that!.!.!.)

So, using the Baltic migration theory of American settlement we can say that the bow may well have entered America through one of the later migrations!. This would be supported by very early American peoples not using bows!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

Archeology indicates that the first inhabitants of the Americas didn't have bow-and-arrow technology!. They certainly had spears, and had spear throwers (atlatl)!. But somewhere along the way (I forget when), they invented it!.

Bow and arrow isn't an especially difficult technology to invent!. It's been developed independently by a number of different cultures, in both the New and Old World!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

For the most part, hunter-gatherer tribes developed a similar means of hurling a pointed weapon across a distance with great velocity!. Early methods involved a spear throwing stick that the hunter would use to "launch" the spear, kind of like a catapult where the hunter's arm was the catapult arm!.

As tribes dispersed across continents, this technology went with them, and likely developed into similar weapons afterwards!.

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Actually, considering the time frames involved, it's possible that the first Amerindians brought the bow, or at least the idea for the bow, with them!. We know they brought a very sophisticated spear and atlal technology, and the bow is not a great step forward from that concept!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

American Indians were originally from Asia!. They brought the technology with them, across the Bering Straits!. That was before the USA bought Alaska from the Russians!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I don't know, perhaps, the skill is/was ancestral and is/was in their nature!.!.!.like an innate desire to survive!.

Or God gave them insight on how to survive by hunting and eating!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

It's quite possible for simple technology to be developed in more than one place!.
The American indians may have been firstWww@QuestionHome@Com

First known bow and arrows were made by The Huns they are in Asia!.

Here is some history on them, http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/Huns Www@QuestionHome@Com

They brought the technology with them from Asia!.Www@QuestionHome@Com