----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Godwin" <dave at waveridersystems.com> To: <MedCat7 at aol.com>; <dragaera at dragaera.info> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 7:48 PM Subject: Re: Bows and arrows > > > > > > "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 > > > You can see these in use by Australian Aborigines in the Tom Selleck movie "Quigley Down Under", along with a very cool Sharps rifle. Jeff