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The effect war had on traditional bowyery (bow required for stone age hunting bows were quite extension that can throw a dart exponentially holmegaard building) was extensive. Bows needed to be made different. A need for stealth and maneuverabili- further than an arm alone, the static tips of the by the hundreds, they needed to be strong, able ty while having a lower draw weight yet Holmegaard is like having two atl-atl’s attached bow to draw up to 100 lbs in weight, to fire heavy maintaining arrow speed for close quarters to the limbs of your bow. The result is greater by matt shull armor piercing arrows over 100 yards in battle. hunting placed far greater engineering demands arrow speed with less draw weight and more Here is where the English longbow made it’s on the stone age hunter. These engineering maneuverability. Perfect for the stone age reign, along with its counterparts in East Africa, principles are only recently being understood by hunter. people with PHD’s diving deeply into the science Some 10,000 years ago in stone age Europe and The Eastern Woodlands of the U.S. arming of wood performance. The stone age of wondered a hunter armed with a selfbow (all the Cherokee in their expanding territories. The The Holmegaard Bow is challenging and bowyery was undoubtedly the golden age of wood) far superior in design to the selfbows of longbow or D bow is simple in design. with the extremely rewarding to make. bowyery. today. Without the use of bronze tools, pottery, widest part in the handle tapering evenly to For those of us with European ancestry it is nice agriculture, the wheel, the written word or even a narrow tips, an elliptical tiller (bend) allows the to be reminded that we too have a link to the The Holmegaard Bow, found in bogs through- stable village for support, this hunter roamed as strain to be distributed throughout its mass which golden stone age of bowyery. out Europe, having fed hunter gatherers for part of a network of bands weaving throughout was significant, 6’ long and 1 1/4” wide. The thousands of years, was a work of mastery. the continent for millennia. This wanderer's favorite material for the English longbow was Most commonly made of Elm, the Holmegaard proficiency in gathering edible and medicinal yew, a rare tension strong conifer that grows like a was misinterpreted for decades. Accustomed to plants, like all hunter gatherers was flawless, and shrub with numerous stalks. A straight 6’ section looking at English Longbows, archeologists saw his/her ingenuity with weaponry is only recently roughly 4” diameter of one of the trunks would the rounded back and assumed it was laid out being fully grasped. How this particular hunter be cut and split into two possibly 4 staves. The like the English Longbow with a rounded belly. met their end we will never know, but the bark would be carefully removed from the back It was not until the rise of the experimental weapon they carried, which laid preserved at the of the bow leaving an unbroken growth ring archeology movement, that such misinterpreta- Join us april 19th for bottom of a bog in Holmegaard Denmark for necessary to withstand the brutal tension load of tions were revealed. Modern bowyers Tim thousands of years, is still being studied. It is the such a heavy bow. The blank (early reduction the Traditional bow Baker and Errett Callahan observed that the oldest artifact on earth identified as a bow. It is stage) would be reduced down with hatchets, and Holmegaard Bow had been placed backwards. building workshop, the Holmegaard Bow. rasps or celts and stone flakes, to be roughly equal in thickness to its width, with a smooth It is designed like most Native American where the selfbows, with a rounded back like the sapling it It is speculated that such an advanced design rounded belly. A rounded belly is not preferred came from, cambium artistically scraped off of Holmegaard, English would require several thousand years to develop. for most bow designs as it reduces the surface an unbroken growth ring, belly scraped flat to Placing the advent of the bow some 13,000 years area available for compression performance, the Longbow, Eastern provide more surface area for compression ago. About 5,000 years ago the rise of agricul- counterbalance to tension, but since one of the strength in order to balance the tension strength Woodland Flatbow ture allowed for an abundance of food which characteristics of conifers is compression of temperate woodland deciduous trees. From diminished the use of the bow as a hunting strength, less surface area is needed allowing for and many more designs here the design principles become more weapon. The food surplus and the need to reduced mass. All bow designs strive for arrow fascinating, incorporating 2” wide working protect the territory required to farm gave rise to speed by utilizing strength while limiting mass. will be taught. limbs that taper beautifully to a static handle, less the soldier. A full time combatant, utilized for hand shock, and static tips. The tips are greatly protection and conquest, supported by his The English Longbow is the most widely reduced in width to reduce mass, while community, which was quickly growing in size to documented bow in history. Effective as a REGISTER ONLINE OR CALL simultaneously increasing in thickness in order become cities and eventually kingdoms. Enter warbow, but cumbersome and ineffective for to not bend. Just as an atl-atl is an arm 317.774.6360 the age of War, which we are still in. most hunting applications. The demands
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