make a bow + arrow

In a time well before recorded history—back in the Stone Age—bows and arrows entered human history via the Neanderthal. It seems these nifty bow and arrows were something the Neanderthal whipped up in his spare time somewhere in South Africa. The arrowheads were made from bone and stone, and the earliest known examples are more than 60,000 years old.

As humans migrated across the lands, so too did archery—and for a good reason: bows and arrows were really handy. Archery made hunting a whole lot quicker and easier, and in the world of warfare, it moved combat beyond hand-to-hand fighting. But what gave soldiers the ultimate edge (and street cred) was when they combined archery with horseback riding. In almost any film featuring archery, you’ll probably see