Archery is now a very popular sport and hobby all over the world, but in the past, long ago, it was even more widespread. Every army had archers and men hunted with bows for food. Every country or every territory invented its own particular design of bow and therefore, even nowadays, there are many different types of archery bows. Modern technology has meant that new varieties of archery bows are still being developed.
Bow hunting or bowhunting is one of those sports that you either love or you hate – a lot like fox hunting in the United Kingdom. Town people hate it and anybody concerned with it and country people see it necessary to cull wild animals that could otherwise become a pest.
Bowmen have played a major role in warfare and hunting for thousands of years. Primitive bows were made of a single piece of wood, but composite recurve bows were being made from Greece to China as far back as the second millennium BC.
People have been practicing archery for a minimum of four thousand years, but almost certainly for a lot longer than that. Parts of composite recurve bows have been found dating back to the second millennium BC, but the parts that were found were the non-wooden, composite parts, typically of horn.
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