Love me some history, and that's a pretty cool find.

Hmmm… But the “point” is the “point?”

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Was opium illegal in Britain while they were in porting it to China during the Opium Wars

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Define advanced? A cannon is pretty damn advanced compared to a trebuchet compared to a spear. We definitely experienced massive booms, and technology seems to advance on a ramp that makes it go faster and faster, but that just means 50k years from now they might laugh and say we were so primitive.

Homo sapiens may have brought [everything] to [every continent].

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I walked past a small twig hanging off a tree today, tried to push it out of my way, and it fwapped me on the lip. It's not even the first time in my life I've done that, so I'm obviously not a genius to observe it.

From there maybe I'd make it a toy if I were a bored cave man. Maybe I'd tie some rope my cave dad taught me how to make on one end and flick it around. It's really not so much of a stretch that upon observing some boucy wood and rope that you could use that rope to propel something else. Maybe a rock. Wait. Spears work pretty well on those animals we like. What if I made a small spear and flung that with it?

Of course, it's easy to say it's easy 50k years later, but still. The logic isn't too hard to believe.

> Using wood's elastic proprieties is not obvious at all

There is a kind of snare (spring snare) which bends a still-alive sapling with a rope joining to a noose and trigger on the ground which can catch mammals images

This is simpler than a bow and could have been on the inventive pathway towards a bow and arrow.

Anyone is welcome to argue whatever point they’d like.

In this context, large ungulates = hippopotamus, bison, elephants, rhinoceros, large boars, etc, because the actual animals in this discussion are generally extinct Pleistocene megafauna, not white tailed deer, which I agree are not difficult at all to drop in one shot for an experience or lucky hunter. The ambiguity here is probably because “large ungulate” means something different to me as an evolutionary biologist than it does to hunters. I hunt, but I wouldn’t really call myself “a hunter”, if that makes sense.

> If something sharp passes through the lungs or heart of a large ungulate like elk or moose, then they tend to die rapidly.

Rapidly seems kinda relative. I’ve double lung punched a prairie elk and had to go over two kilometers to get it.

Not trying to argue but large ungulates are very easy to kill with a single shot from an arrow. Regardless of primitive or advanced archery gear. If something sharp passes through the lungs or heart of a large ungulate like elk or moose, then they tend to die rapidly. The vasculature is so condensed in this region that cutting it causes massive blood loss and rapid death. It wouldn’t happen with a wood tipped arrow. But with freshly flaked stone it absolutely would.

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200 yards is about as far as they run the shot is usually 30 yards

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-animals-like-moose-elk-deer-fall-and-die-immediately-when-hit-by-even-an-arrow-whereas-lions-bears-and-dogs-dont-and-can-be-alive-for-days-and-miles

Double lung shots drop them- 200 yards- moose elk and deer. Deer can be dropped almost immediately if you are in a stand and at an angle hit double lung heart shot. No tracking. Easiest tracking I’ve ever done is my father shot a deer as it bent down for some reason at a weird angle it put its head right in front of where it’s lungs would be-arrow pinned the head to the chest and it fell over backwards

There's a great book about this, too ("Expedition Whydah" by Barry Clifford). Its the only confirmed pirate treasure! Great story.

What is your impressions of these collaborations,my only thought was many of there points have previously been ,do you feel these books are originals or restatement of points other books have made.

>Using wood's elastic proprieties is not obvious at all.

Anyone who's been in a forest on a windy day would disagree.

>Bows also have no "prototype stage", a bow either works perfectly or it is useless.

Nonsense.

Earl-lie in the moooorning.

Humans haven’t just started advancing technologically in the past 100 years. Technological advancement goes back thousands of years - it just started exponentially advancing in the past 100 or so.

Just added to my History playlist! Thanks for sharing!

Awesome! I’ll have to pre-order it!

How the heck have people been around for 50000 yrs but only started advancing technology in the last 100??? Wild

Never really thought Warhammer 40k would revert to low-tech after 10 to 30 thousand more years of galactic war, but here we are.