Small Arms of the Scythians. On the Time of Sigmoid Bow Appearance in Eastern Europe

Horse archers well-known in the ancient world used composite sigmoid bows for shooting (archery), the specific constructive features of which have been studied by the researchers. This type of a bow was convergently formed in Eastern China in the middle of the 2nd millennium B.C. and in the North Ca...

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Main Author: Lukyashko Sergey Ivanovich
Format: Article
Language:Russian
Published: Volgograd State University 2015-12-01
Series:Vestnik Volgogradskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta. Seriâ 4. Istoriâ, Regionovedenie, Meždunarodnye Otnošeniâ
Subjects:
bow
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