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Bow and arrow arrived about 1,400 years ago across western North America, study finds
- March 17, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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A study clarifies the date of an important technological milestone: the adoption of the bow and arrow in western North America. The replacement of older weapons by bows and arrows occurred independently in several prehistoric cultures. Briggs Buchanan and colleagues explore this transition in western North America, where the bow replaced the atlatl and dart as the primary hunting technology. The study is published in PNAS Nexus.
Originally published at Phys.org