Talk:Hun bow

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Recent archeological digs in China show that a proto-celtic people living in the area introduced the recurve bow to the Asians, not the other way around.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2502chinamum.html

I would suggest an update to reflect this- unless you can prove the NOVA show and it's participants to be a fraud.

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This article needs major cleanup. The only reference 404s, it is an historical article without a single date or even a century, the tone is breathlessly gushing, and numerous performance claims are made (some sounding suspiciously like they may have arisen from RPG rules) which may or may not be true but could only be determined by experiment or detailed historical references, neither or which are cited. Further, some of the claims just don't make sense (e.g. claim that being composite improves accuracy -- it doesn't -- or that recurves are inherently faster -- they're not.) Finally the image (added by User:Ulv, who seems to be inactive) is obviously at best a reconstruction without information about how, why or when (which demands the question, how do we know it is accurate?), and in fact seems to be a commercial model.

Ah. Wait. While googling around I found http://huntingsociety.org/ArcheryHist.html. Maybe a copyvio to boot... -- Securiger 02:46, 28 June 2006 (UTC)