> > > "Dragon" mentions a weapon called "spear-throwers" (iirc) which were not > > widely used. One of his messmates had to tell Vlad what they were. > > Perhaps the bow and arrow wasn't yet invented. > > As long as we're all guessing while AWB, I remember them as "javelin > throwers" (I don't think that one's taken yet), and I was pretty > sure they *were* bows. That's the bit in _Dragon_ that I was thinking > of when I said Vlad wasn't familiar with bows and arrows. > I took them to be atlatls: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlatl