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FourWinds F
FourWinds May 13, 2005 17:30:27
Replying to fitzcoraldo

If you define a longbow as being simply a long bow then they would be longbows, yes.

F FourWinds
FourWinds May 13, 2005 17:36:39
Replying to FourWinds

And if you're wondering why I say that it's because Otzi's bow was apparently all heartwood, whereas the medieval ones took advantage of the tensile differences between sapwood and heartwood. Otzi's bow would not have had the power that a medieval longbow had.

P PeterH
PeterH May 13, 2005 21:56:09
Replying to FourWinds

I know what you mean - the term has come to mean a specific type of bow from a specific historical period

But..

if Oetzi's bow is a long one made from yew in the Neolithic, then it's a Neolithic yew longbow in my book ; D