This is one of the best documentaries ever created, I recorded it decades ago on a VHS video tape from Discovery Channel, but my video player stopped working and I thought I'll never see it again. Looked for it on the internet for many, many years, but was nowhere to be found. And now, finally, there it is. Despite the fact that the image quality isn't perfect, I'd like to thank you very much for publishing it, it's a must-see for everyone who likes history and human civilization.

@NobleKorhedron

3 ай бұрын

They make one big mistake; the fella they called "Arthur Credland", is actually Mike Loades.

@Frankie-hl8od

3 ай бұрын

​@@NobleKorhedronb. ❤

@garyjohnson8327

2 ай бұрын

They literally left out half the world

@andrewgraves4026

2 ай бұрын

VCR repair.

@ryannewington6121

Ай бұрын

can't imagine the VHS recording of a TV show was much better quality

Thank you , I loved this , I have been into archery since I first found a baboo garden stake and a piece of string in my grand dads yard at 5 . I'm now 53 and have 5 bows of all types . I started to train my son from when he could first hold the mini kiddies bow to now he is 15 and shoots a recurve and his own real compound bow . Archery is a fantastic way to teach your children to learn an art that you can pass from generation to generation and always give them the ability for self defence and for hunting for food , even if both are no longer necessary in a modern world . Archery and target shooting builds confidence and a level of pride that will last their life time and build a healthy mind .

@Raz.C

2 ай бұрын

Self defence? So if a bully starts a fight, you expect him to run home, grab his bow and loose a few arrows at said bully? Or should he take the bow to school with him? You know, for "self-defence"...

@gazza124561

2 ай бұрын

@@Raz.C well the bow was used as a weapon of war , the bow was also a school curricula activerty , but no I wouldn’t expect him to run home and grab his bow to fight against a bully , I think the karate I’ve taught him since he was 6 would help him with bully’s , but thanks for the comment Raz

@Raz.C

2 ай бұрын

@@gazza124561 No worries, mate. I guess that means that you've deleted that part about using the bow for self-defence, then?

@kenthatfield4287

2 ай бұрын

It's good to teach your kid some self-defense via martial arts or wrestling or boxing. At least teach them how to duck and how to block if you don't want them to be violent I understand. The violence is usually perpetrated on the bullies part is it not. And if you're walking down the street and you run into a thug on the street who may have a knife on him. Then you need to teach him some dirty tactics. And I don't mean just he I also mean she. It's good that a female knows how to defend herself against any kind of creep. And you never know if you could be stranded in a area where there is no just put it this way the wilderness. You will need to be able to make some arrows and a bow. And you will also need to know what sort of things that you can eat.

@sandyt4343

Ай бұрын

@@Raz.Cit certainly can be a weapon for self defense. I walked into room and was faced with a guy standing with a bow and arrow pointing at me, he said he was expecting to have somebody else coming after him from something that had happened earlier. The people in the house finally got him to move out after a long drawn out eviction hassle. It made an impression on me I’ll never forget. At the moment it seemed more scary than a gun.

humans are NOT the only animal that makes war. Not even the only primate. Good grrief!

This was exciting information. Thank you for posting it.

Having watched this twice, it's really is an interesting watch.

Excellent technical history. I loved the real demonstrations of various arrow capability. Good job!

A really interesting documentary - factual & informative. Many thanks.

A truly excellent video, very informative.

Excellent video, really enjoyed it. Thanks for posting.

Regarding the position of the handgrip of the Yumi Japanese bow, I understood it that there were two reasons that it's about a third of the way up the bow. The first, and simplest, is that it makes it easier to shoot from horseback, the lower limb being half the length of the upper limb. The second reason is to do with the physics of waves and vibration. When an arrow is shot from a bow and the limbs snap back to their braced position a shock wave is created in the bow by the surplus energy left in the bow. This shock wave has points along the bow where it is at it's maximum amplitude where a strong vibration is felt in the hand and also points where the wave cancels out, called nodes, where there is no vibration. One third of the way up the bow is a point of cancellation, a node, so no vibration is felt if you grip the bow there, whereas at the mid point as in almost all other bows, vibration is felt by the bow hand.

@ynraider

3 ай бұрын

Also, it's easier for WOMEN to use... Onnabushi were female mercenaries/samurai warriors.

@xomox5316

3 ай бұрын

Yes the vibration is less felt/absorbed because of the limbs of different size, the two generated shockwaves are off sync canceling each other out much better there is much less felt vibration in the arm. I imagine that it was a design choice because there were many foot archers that used the yumi bow and that style is a little more complex to make so there had to be a benefit other then horse archery for foot archers to also use it.

@OzWorldChannel

2 ай бұрын

Fascinating explanation. Thank you.

@ronaldoball7497

2 ай бұрын

It's fun for me to build miniature bows from twigs it takes less materials imagine a rose longbow I use shiskabob ammo and murder Mac n cheese boxes across the kitchen hunting in hostile territory (the wife hates it) accuracy is mandatory ricochet must be minimalized. She's threatened taking my Birch Yumi 😢

@brianpeck4035

Ай бұрын

I think that the Yumi is so long that holding it in the center would cause it to touch the ground if held vertically. When playing the guitar, there are spots on the string that can be touched (not pressed down) once the string is vibrated, that will not immediately deaden the string. Guitarist call them harmonics and the clearest of these is at the center point or 12th fret. So I think holding the bow in the center may be a very good spot for reduced vibration.

Wow, learned so much from this documentary. For instance learned that the fletching is designed to produce drag which slows the back of the arrow and keeps it flying straight.. makes perfect sense and is fascinating!

Those early bows are simply awesome !!

A truly fantastic and enlightening video!

Ranging bare foot through the kent woodland and fields with a little bow my father made for me when i was a young lad is a cherished memory along with mixing with and marveling at some folk who belonged to a reenactment group my dad would let practice with their war bows on our farm. Ive made a few bows myself and still enjoy a session every now and again.

Greatest doc of all time.

As a bowyer, I am happy that bows are finally portrayed mostly accurate, well made, thanks for sharing!

@Lucas-jy7cv

Ай бұрын

Where would one go to buy one?

@EmielTalen

Ай бұрын

@@Lucas-jy7cv I still don't have a webshop ( I should ) but do you have something like discord? Just so we don't have to send email addresses and stuff on a platform like KZread 😂

@EmielTalen

Ай бұрын

@@Lucas-jy7cv delete the capital letters in my name, emieltalen And send it to a g mail address. All my replies just keep disappearing

Imagine training hard all your life and being the best swordsman alive but get ended by an arrow 😮

@leesloan8216

2 ай бұрын

an arrow from someone who trained equally as long, to become the best archer alive!

@oliverklozhoff

Ай бұрын

​@@leesloan8216or some lucky pos that got a bow last month lol

@JeepTrailsandBarbells

Ай бұрын

​@@oliverklozhoff😂😂😂

@Ascalis1

16 күн бұрын

​@@oliverklozhoffLiterally ask Richard the Lionheart. He might agree.

An OUTSTANDING video! I really enjoyed this.

very good, I thank you very much.

Bowhunting deep inside the Honey Island Swamp of Louisiana Is how I maintain sanity in this crazy world. Love my trusty "59" Kodiak recurve❤

@taramilton8695

3 ай бұрын

Hunger Games ?

@stevedriscoll2539

3 ай бұрын

Nice! I miss my recurve days, stalking midwestern Iowa whitetail deer.

@mutteringmale

2 ай бұрын

Ever shoot a giant catfish with a fishing arrow? Big mistake on my part. There went 9$ worth of arrow sailing around the swamp like a submarine with a tall shaft periscope, cruising around and too big to land.

@phoenixrising7623

2 ай бұрын

If killing Animal by a vicious bow and arrow give give you insanity you have bigger problems that you imagine, you my friend what do we call Flappy ears

@stevedriscoll2539

2 ай бұрын

@@phoenixrising7623 he didn't say it "give him insanity", rather the exact opposite

Archery is my single most passionate skill since i was 7 ive shot i shot competitively when i was 14 even getting a robin hood (william tel) i love these things thank you for this video ❤

@galvinstanley3235

17 күн бұрын

Have you ever shot a flaming arrow?

Dhanurved Oldest book on bow and arrow ... Your documentary is incomplete without that...

This is very well done with excellent presenters of detailed information. Thank you.

Great program, the Mongols were amazing archers on horseback with a very short bow

@gigizack

2 ай бұрын

So were the Koreans with their amazing composite bows

No Mallory uses a hunting stick that returns. A returning boomerang is a child's toy. You cannot down more than a pigeon with a boomerang. But with a hunting stick you can take out the large Grey kangaroo.

I enjoyed this one ! Very interesting

Amazing. The Welsh ( Celts) had been using the longbow since the ice age and had probably had the idea pinched by the later invasion of Roman, Angle, Saxon and Norman as there weren't bits of wood big enough in the Reed beds of East Anglia and yet Wales got a quick mention when they'd found pa Syrian bow left there by the Romans. The Welsh were the ones the English King's would hire to help in the battles. Lucked out again. Good programme mind and some very interesting stuff

@ynraider

3 ай бұрын

"Welsh" were Blacks from Central African Migrations dating back >c45KBC c500AD Anglo-Saxon court records called them Blacks, BTW. There was a racial apartheid and genocide.

Fantastic documentary

Man is NOT the only animal that goes to war!

Have you people never heard of the sqare headed hollow point arrowhead? I learned of these as a boy over 60 years ago. So much is forgotten! They were designed to crack plate armour, in order for it to either break, fall off or a combination including having other arrows or weapons finish the job. Usually, the idea was to capture nobility for ransom, not kill them. That honour was reserved for the hoi poloi. That was one of the reasons tha Crecy t Agincourt were so unusual.

@MrVuvuzaala

2 ай бұрын

They didn't mention the 'whistling' arrowhead either; that one had oval holes in the flanges of the arrowhead, designed to make a whistling sound as they travelled through the air, which would scare the charging horses causing them to rear up and throw off their riders.

I love the compound bow it’s very accurate fire your arrow buries itself in the target. Very nice bows

Every weapon ever created by man will never rival his choice of words against another

@foggy561

3 ай бұрын

Sticks and stones

Man is not the only animal that goes to war. Chimps do, so do bees and hornets.

@alexk9295

Күн бұрын

Wolves as well

"Only the dead, know the end of war!" Plato 2,000 yrs ago!😮

@Pikachuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

3 ай бұрын

If you want peace be prepared for war_ unknown author

@ynraider

3 ай бұрын

@@Pikachuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Kemetic(Egyptian) proverb. Africans really did figure everything out first.

@gabrielpaiu4733

3 ай бұрын

What a deep, philosophical thought! And purely true!

@stevedriscoll2539

3 ай бұрын

I hope that is true.

For an interesting documentary about archery there is very little actual shooting of them. Enjoyed it.

You might take in mind that if you're using a thumb release you need to put the arrow on the right side of the bow not the left. I know because I have a horse bow and I have tried it. When you pull the string back the arrow will automatically go off to the left and fall to the ground.

I am interested how many American viewers there are here, very interesting to have their contribution.

Harold Godwinson had archers that he took with him to the north against the Danes. When Harold Godwinson marched south to fight William he left his archers behind because they couldn't keep up. He lost because he had no archers.

This was a very good documentary of our history of the bows, arrows, and cross bows. So good that I would say is the best documentary I've seen yet to date. I have always loved to learn more of the different types and where and who invented them. The different types of trigger systems they used back then were something that I'm sure each side would always want to get from their enemies and make them for themselves. Basically just like with every technology there are others waiting to steal it from the one who designed it. An there has been so many great things they made back then and one of my favorite bows was the type the Huns was using on horse back, the short bows that had the best range of that time and the secrets of how those bows were made was lost until recently. Arrow heads were also very important to us because it was different arrows for different reasons. An everything has just improved during time with bows and arrows. But now we have added compressed air to our arrows and send them to the speed of light if they can hold together long enough to get there. That is my next step is testing just how far I can get an arrow to fly accurate hitting the target.

Really great video history. It would have been nice if you had gone one step further and included the modern Compound Bow as well.

great documentary as to how the bow was used in wars and hunting, especially the various ends of the arrows

@galvinstanley3235

17 күн бұрын

Flaming arrows.

Thank You first time I got to know angular bow

Is there a more frightening sight than a hail of arrows flying through the air towards you? Maybe flaming arrows 😂

OK. A couple of points. The bow IS and Was known in Australia in the North. However the bows that got to Australia were few and far between. I've look into this on and off for some time and some of this is pure guesswork so take that into account. The bows that I THINK got to Australia were Pacific Island Black Palm bows or possibly Bamboo from what is now Indonesia, the arrows for the black palm bows are not inaccurately described as small spears about 5 feet long with no fletching. Now these Bows only got to Australia by trade from the Pacific Islands and Indonesia or possibly carried by currents if lost into the sea. Now Australia has woods that can be made into bows yes, but a straight copy of a Black Palm or Bamboo bow in Australian woods is MOST unlikely to survive. So that is one strike against the bow here. The other is that the Indigenous Peoples had developed the Woomera [spear thrower], the hunting boomerang [which does NOT return, despite the comment by the gentleman near the end of the film] and the nulla nulla or wadi [there are several other names for what is basically a club or cudgel] and they simply did not NEED the bow to hunt with given their ability to stalk game animals and in Warfare they same weapons were also sufficient. Though some war SPEARS are among the most vicious and terrible weapons I have ever seen, with barbs pointing BOTH ways so the spear cannot be removed from the opponents body. Basically The Indigenous peoples all had efficient weapons and the bow was only known in the far North of the country and little regarded there. Also remember that this was a period where stone tools were used and the most common stone available here for tools was a material called "Silcrete", think of it as a very fine and hard sandstone. Chert, Jasper and Flint are known but It seems that the Indigenous peoples made little use of it, though I have seen some very nice points made from glass and ceramic telegraph wire insulators post White Settlement. Trying to shape a bow from an Australian Hardwood with this material would have been most difficult, though I believe well within the skills available considering the sophistication of some of the Indigenous spears. Still no likes a bow breaking while being made and when you are using Silcrete blades which are not as sharp as flint types and you already have proven tech then not bothering with the bow makes sense. Keep in mind this is my opinion only from my on and off studies of the dearth of the bow and arrow here in Australia.

@Australian_Made

2 ай бұрын

✌👌 🇦🇺

Super video 😊

11:05 when he shows the different angles he can aim towards, I am pretty sure that a lot of bow cultures used both hands as equally as possible... You would switch which hand was holding the bow when shooting to the other side... Parting shot and all... If you are on horseback then it seems especially important to switch bow hand.

@MrAranton

3 ай бұрын

I am an archer and that‘s not how shooting a bow works. Just like we have dominant hands we have dominant eyes. Switching hands means the arrow is further away from the dominant eye. With me it‘s the right one. If I were to switch hand, the arrows would go about 25 degrees to the right of where I was aiming. It is possible to compensate for that, but not in the heat of battle or if you‘re trying to loose as many arrows as quickly as possible.

@Redmenace96

3 ай бұрын

Right. But he dominant hand is the best.

@DamienBennati

20 күн бұрын

Archer's skeletons show which side is dominant. The very bones tell that truth.

Beautiful ancient weapon! 🏹

Thanks for posting. Just started watching this. I do hope that the Black Army of Llantrisant at 0985834 and Crecy gets a mention along with Henry V of Monmouth 's later employment of Welsh archers at Agiincourt.

@iantobanter9546

4 ай бұрын

*09...? Poitier!

Ants wage war against other ants,they have soldier ants even.

@jamesmaddison4546

10 ай бұрын

gorillas, chimps, lions, dingos, hyenas, monkeys, could continue, all wage war against rival families etc

@cecilandrews7479

2 ай бұрын

That's not the definition of War that's eliminating competition of food

@teknoaija1762

2 ай бұрын

Yeah,that is just foraging behavior,not warfare as such,but ants wage war though.@@cecilandrews7479

Bow is much older invention than 10000 bc. The earliest definite remains of bow and arrow from Europe are possible fragments from Germany found at Mannheim-Vogelstang dated 17,500-18,000 years ago, and at Stellmoor dated 11,000 years ago. Stone projectile points dating back 64,000 years were excavated from layers of ancient sediment in Sibudu Cave, South Africa. Examinations found traces of blood and bone residues, and glue made from a plant-based resin that was used to fasten them on to a wooden shaft.

The longbow test for plate armor would've been better either with something solid behind it, like the dummy in the chainmail. As it was, the plate had room to bounce off the arrows and vibrate the energy out.

Sorry, my fingers are to tired of closing all the commercials, that I just don't have the energy to like and subscribe!

Man is not the only animal that goes to war.

Remember, “wax your heads. A waxed head will penetrate where a dry head will be stopped.” Something I read years ago in the diary of a bowyer ( a bow technician) who was at Poitiers. Paraphrased by Conan Doyle in one of his novels.

@gigizack

2 ай бұрын

or grease with a piece of animal fat to prevent oxidation as well

Miss the flat profile bow designs like the Mollegabet, i like that propeller design, at the moment i try to build my first from hazelnut and even Elderberry is good timber, but hard to find old and thick enough bushes/ trunks in my area

The Welsh was one of the best long bow man so please say Welsh and English bow thank you would be much appreciated

@OdeInWessex

2 ай бұрын

The longbow was a Welsh invention (I'm English btw).

@guntertorfs6486

2 ай бұрын

@@OdeInWessex Maybe the Welsh longbow was only average length to the rest , the Welsh being so short on average.

@OdeInWessex

2 ай бұрын

@@guntertorfs6486 You might find yourself confronted by a short but furious Welsh person fully prepared to bite your knees for a joke like that!

@guntertorfs6486

Ай бұрын

@@OdeInWessex Thanks for the warning. As long ( no pun intended ) as that Welsh person isn't above average height ( in Welsh terms ) , he won't be able to reach more precious parts. I hope. ( wanted to write him / her , but this is a decent family channel )

@OdeInWessex

Ай бұрын

@@guntertorfs6486 😊

Man is not the only animal that goes to war, battle, or fights other groups of their own kind. For example, chimps & Meerkats are two that I know of.

@gcs7817

Ай бұрын

Or ants vs other ants or ants vs termites

2:25 "Man is the only animal that goes to war". Acedemic credibility seriously undermined in one nine word sentence.

@flintliddon

Ай бұрын

A really ignorant statement that some writer probably heard at a cocktail party and thought sounded smart and cool.

I own a Steve Ralphs 85lb war bow. I bought it off him in 2005 with the intention of taking it up as a hobby, and it took me a couple of months to build up the strength to draw it and make aimed shots. Shortly after I suffered unrelated permanent nerve damage to my shoulder, and I’ve never been able to draw it since. It’s a lovely bit of kit, shame I can’t use it

@kevinmaughan4290

Ай бұрын

Wow, do you practice lower poundage bows

@UkDave3856

Ай бұрын

@@kevinmaughan4290 alas no. I bought the bow with the intention of taking it up as a new hobby, but the injury I suffered took many years to partially recover from. So I was never able to take archery up as a hobby.

@jamesmaddison4546

Ай бұрын

@@UkDave3856 you started out way too heavy on the weight dude which probably caused that injury. There's deep muscles and tendons in the shoulder and back that get used on archery that require very targeted exercises to build up the strength in them and they're easy to injure if done incorrectly. I didn't even start messing with a 70lb recurve bow until I had a couple years under my belt

@UkDave3856

Ай бұрын

@@jamesmaddison4546 The injury was caused by an unrelated traumatic event and was nothing to do with my fledgling archery hobby, but yes I know I started off with a bow that was too heavy, but it was too good an offer to pass up. I had spoke to Steve Ralphs about making me a bow and his are understandably expensive due to their traditional production methods. I didn’t have much money back then, but he did have this particular bow made for a customer who’d backed out of the deal, so he offered it to me at a sizeable discount. I was also a bit of a beefcake back then too, and although my gym honed muscles weren’t ideally suited to the unique task of drawing a powerful war bow, they were slowly adjusting to their new task and I wasn’t in a hurry, and had started a training regimen tailored to drawing this weapon, and I’d reached a point where I could fully draw, aim and shoot the bow three or four times a minute when I suffered my unrelated traumatic injury, and that as they say, was that.

@UkDave3856

Ай бұрын

@@jamesmaddison4546 As I said in my post, the injury I recieved was unrelated to archery, and was in fact caused by a high velocity shrapnel passing through my torso. I do hoever agree with you that for my first bow this one was way to heavy weight for me. That being said, I really wanted a Steve Ralphs war bow as I'd seen a documentary involving him making the ones seen in various Hollywood movies, and it turned out that they were quite expensive too given that he only ever made them using traditional methods. I didn't have much cash back then, but after speaking to Steve on the phone he offered me a really good deal on a bow that a customer had failed to pay for and collect. I was also a bit of a beefcake twenty years ago too, and although I knew that my gym created muscle mass wouldn't be up to drawing such a bow straight away, I began a strenuous training regimen to strengthen the muscles I'd need. after a month or so, I could draw, aim and shoot the bow three or four times a minute, and although it took a great deal of effort, it didn't cause me any pain either at the time or afterwards, and I was starting to get used to it (i really was very strong back then). Then I was injured very seriously away from archery, and that as they say was that.

Brilliant documentary, and I am not an archer. 👍🏻🇦🇺

Actual hunting bumerang don't return. The returning ones are a toy rather than a weapon.

@Australian_Made

2 ай бұрын

Yeah !!!!!!

The position of the handle on the Japanese bow has practical meaning. All forces are concentrated in the middle of the bow when pulling the string. If your wrist is there these forces will be transferred to your hand. That's why...

I wish theyd touched on native american bows more. Custer lost his great charge to the natives, due to them having bows made of sheep horn and sinew. Absolutely devastating when you can be more accurate, quicker, and just as lethal as the firearms of the time. That was basically the nuke of pre modern america. They kept the knowledge of how theyre made secret from the white man at any cost. They were genuinely THAT effective in the plains. Really interesting, however the making of them was lost for a long time, until people started to experiment and figure it out again, since it wasnt written down and was kept secret. But the dead arts can always be resurrected with some ingenuity.

@cecilandrews7479

2 ай бұрын

😅😅😅😅😅😅

@connorhart7597

2 ай бұрын

@@steveclark5357 what in specific do you think was bullshit in my comment lmao

@steveclark5357

2 ай бұрын

native Americans did not use or make composite bows, never happened@@connorhart7597

@steveclark5357

2 ай бұрын

I admit ,I was wrong, I looked it up after my ignorant comment, you are correct sir, the sioux did in fact use sinew and horn in making their bows, I apologize for my rude behaviour @@connorhart7597

@bubstacrini8851

Ай бұрын

​@@connorhart7597the Sioux had repeating rifles among their weaponry and overwhelming numerical superiority.

Disappointed that they never mentioned the modern compound bow. By far the most powerful and accurate end result of the evolution of the bow.

Just an interesting connection to the lack of a bow being developed in Australia. The aborigines here had a spear throwing stick thing, called a woomera, translated, a spear throwing device. I saw one at a school demonstration somewhere between 1975 and 1979. Again a lot of skill required and no where near the range of a bow, but when it hit, it hit, with the weight of 3 metres of 20mm diameter wood behind it. Target it was a 5 gallon drum, range one football field, went in one side out the other. Early settlers if hit, reportedly , mainly pushed them all the way through to get them out. The barbs were about 50 mm wide and the head in total was about 300mm long.

@0ooTheMAXXoo0

3 ай бұрын

That is called an Atlatl in the Americas. Much older weapon than the bow and arrow. Those are found all over the world from way back in the stone age. In ancient Scandinavia it would be part of an antler used as the launching device. The spear should be springy to get a good launch and the springing motion adds momentum which is the same as mass so it hits with more force. The speed slowing down from air resistance is one factor, but if the spear keeps springing while it flies, all the way until it hits, then it has more mas and so more force when it hits...

@edfitzgerald2591

3 ай бұрын

Quiero Very no⁸​@@0ooTheMAXXoo0

@Happiones

3 ай бұрын

@@0ooTheMAXXoo0 Sounds about right to me with the springing motion. Had me buggered how he was so accurate with the wobble moving the middle of the spear up and down about a foot (300mm). The spear I saw in a doco on the atlatls their finding in the melting ice in Alaska would have been about half the length of the spear I saw used though.

@jamesmaddison4546

3 ай бұрын

@@Happiones different sizes were used for different purposes. Also both those words come out meaning spear throwing device

@Australian_Made

2 ай бұрын

💗🇦🇺

Composite bows were mentioned many times, that they were a superior bow. Not once did they mention what it was or how it was made.

Bamboo was the most likely first bow. And yes. The traditional bow, evena piece cut from a much larger piece, would follow the natural grain of the material

5:42 The Ancient Egyptians understood the springiness of the bow, but didn’t know how to incorporate this concept into the suspension of their chariots. lol.

If only Harold had employed the Welsh archers that kept the Saes out of Wales for so long. It would take Edward 1 and later, the Black Prince, to realise this potential.

I can’t understand why Australian Aboriginals never invented the bow. 50k years of hunting and they’re still throwing sticks…

@139fulton

2 ай бұрын

This is a question I love to ask the Australian Aboriginals why the throwing stick

@blaircorral8158

2 ай бұрын

What’s the difference between a stick and a boomerang? My arrows won’t come back 🤦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿😇

@ChristopherShaskin

2 ай бұрын

The Aborigines were very skilled with the atlatl. Which is very good. The Aztecs actually seemed to favour the atlatl in war.

@ChristisLord2023

2 ай бұрын

​@@ChristopherShaskinI couldn't remember the name, but that's what I was thinking. Power and range without the strings.

@justinduke8135

2 ай бұрын

Might not have had wood that worked for making a bow that would last

I have strong doubts about the theory presented here with the lack of Bows in Australia. One of the biggest issue for bowyers in Australia is the complete lack of good timber suited for bows for one. Open grasslands made a spear launched from a Womera or alatel let you hit and kill with great force bounding kangaroos much easier. The land bridge formed before sea level rise had Indonesia, and New Guinea peoples, all with bows and its more likely the aborigines just let go of the technology rather than not have invented it.

@Australian_Made

2 ай бұрын

Yep 👍👍 🇦🇺

"English archers?" Pity no mention of Monmouth born Henry's hard learned lessons in his Welsh campaign against Owain Glyndwr and his own horrific arrow wound.

@robtbarton9

3 ай бұрын

How many things that the Welsh did do the English claim credit for?

@duggdog9102

2 ай бұрын

​@@robtbarton9sheep shagging

The first time I have seen this documentary and it was very enjoyable. Not enough credit given to Chinese/East Asian development. They first developed the composite bow and the crossbow, and the Chinese are credited with developing the manufacturing acumen to make bronze trigger mechanics so precisely that they were interchangeable. Also very entertaining to read the comments and replies but not as much fun as shooting my own composite recurve (modern materials).

@floivanus

2 күн бұрын

This is a typical Euro Centric documentary style film, they can’t concede that other countries at earlier times did something better even in “the book of the crossbow” printed in 1903; Ralph Payne-Gallway conceded that the earlier Persian bows outperformed the European longbow of medieval times, BUT here we are where this film is portraying European bows to be better 😂

Very interesting and well presented. I guess you couldn't cover everything but the small bows used by the Khoi-San in Southern Africa , used for hunting , not war , would have been an interesting addition. They used poison on their arrows which had detachable heads.

For many thousands of years our best projectile weapon.

Armor becomes more effective when shaped. As in, smaller overlapping plates. Hence, making it multiple times more effective. With complete freedom of movement in mind. Many small individual plates become stronger

Excellent! Very excellent. Thank You. I have always envisioned the bow originating from a childs toy. A bored kid ties a string to both ends of a stick. He flexes his invention in & out. He tries to add a second stick to the combination & the stick accidentally flies off a few feet. Daddy is watching him & says, "Hey! That gives me an idea!" Just a thought. Thanks again.

Pity there's no mention so far of the explanation for the prevalence of yew trees in British churchyard s.

@proslipbrakelubrication1922

3 ай бұрын

Agreed…nor on the unique properties of yew which made it unrivalled

@proslipbrakelubrication1922

3 ай бұрын

Great shame Robert Hardy author’Longbow’ not involved

@stevedriscoll2539

3 ай бұрын

Was it so the clergy could fashion bows for self defense?

@chrisnorton4382

15 күн бұрын

Yew trees produce poisonous berries so they needed to be kept away from cattle, sheep and pigs. Best place to grow them was in a churchyard behind its stone wall/thick hedge, away from any domestic animals.

One aspect of the longbow that is often overlooked is the social aspect - it gave the meanest peasant the power to kill their lord. This of course resulted in lords treating their peasants rather better than in other countries, which I think became the foundation of rule by consent rather than rule by might. It would also have been a morale boost for fighting men - it gave them a country that they actively wanted to defend, rather than being largely indifferent as to who won the day as it would make little to no difference to the lives of their families.

@sjb3460

3 ай бұрын

The genesis of gun control. The number one reason to disarm the peasants.

@Redmenace96

3 ай бұрын

You can also dispatch a Lord with a hammer. Or a sickle, for that matter. A big rock would suffice, I think. Try again.

@chrisnorton4382

3 ай бұрын

​@@Redmenace96- why get close? Shot in the back with a missile weapon and who is the culprit? Who are you going to take reprisals against? The French certainly didn't trust their peasants with bows and preferred hiring Genoese mercenaries with crossbows.

Dear channel; u need to include cc / transcription

Ants and Bees go to war, Against other Ants Vs. Ants and Bees Vs. Bees, sometimes their own species, sometimes not.... So MAN is not alone in this, and begging the question since it's doubtful that the animals learned it from Us, did we learn it from the animals❓🤔❓ Or did we all come by it naturally❓🤔❓

Man evolved to bow from all angles of the world. Incredible

The archer's bow almost certainly developed from the bow drill, a drill for making holes and starting fires.

@jameswalker3973

3 ай бұрын

I would bet that the stringed musical instrument came first then some joker put a stick on oneof the strings and launched...history is made.

@calvinmondrago7397

3 ай бұрын

@@jameswalker3973 Possibly, making jewellery, or making music...the pursuit of beauty is the generative force behind civilization.

@Redmenace96

3 ай бұрын

A string and a stick are pretty far back in history. I made one as a child, and it was garbage. The sinew, and the horn really are the important parts.

@6thmichcav262

25 күн бұрын

Or vines in bushes or trees. Walk in the woods enough and you will find vines stretched across limbs that will launch a stick. Grog starts putting sticks on the vine for fun, then refines the concept.

Man is the only animal that goes to war. Chimpanzees: Am I a joke to you? 🐵

@Australian_Made

2 ай бұрын

👍

3:00 ORIGINAL BOW is the SCYTHIAN . ❤

could add a bit , long bow was still considered pretty much up to water loo period ,kill ratio per arrow was higher ,just the training time to pull between 120 and up to 200lbs [from the mary rose collection ,opened a few eyebrows , I think there is one pom replicating that now ]. made muskets more practical . I think the book ' the crooked stick' has one of the best explores of long bow .

Tools for defense of Ethno Centric family Unit. Tools of long distance strength. These strengths must be getting into growing requiring "more". War is defensive or aggressive.

The test against armor is not indicative of how efficient or not arrows were at the time because of the differential in material composition of the iron plate from that time vs modern steel.

Actually, the response from William tell was this day. Could only go 1 of 2 ways. Either one arrow was sweet or both arrows were bloody.

only using a 90 pound bow some found on the mary rose were 150 pound pull big difference

It's good to know the people involved in this story were there to witness all these developments so they could bring them to us

Steel properties are complex: if you have an angular suit of plate, attached to a person, a plate that doesn't vibrate and thus repel the arrow as it hits, chances of pentration increase substantially. A bouncy small, fixed and rigid square of steel not attached to anything works like a spring against light oncoming projectiles.

I love a Bow

Ants and Yellow Jackets engage in war from my personal observation.

@lucasroche8639

7 күн бұрын

Those are battles not wars. There's a difference.

Timeless weapon/tool/passtime! certain penetration tests favor the bow over firearms. They are quiet. you can reuse arrows. Amazing how logistic the bow and arrow is throughout history.

11:05 Would it be the left side for me since I am left handed?

The Romans preferred the slinger over the archer. As long as they can either find or make ammo, it makes sense to them. They had to carry a lot of equipment as it is.

The bow was the weapon of choice in the middle east which influenced how they fought and the tactics involved. Even to this day the middle east are range fighters. Europe on the other hand are melee fighters so the sword took precedence over the bow and that's how they went to war as well, in close mano a mano. There have been outliers to be sure Agincourt being the most famous but only the horsemen of the Steppe took the bow more seriously than the peoples of Mesopotamia and Egypt.

Aboriginal Australians never used bowe and arrow an interesting side note of human history.

man is not the only animal that goes to war