Editing Arrow (section)

==History==
[[File:Warring States Bronze Arrowheads.jpg|thumb|[[Warring States]] bronze arrowheads]]
[[File:Bow and Arrow.jpg|thumb|[[Africa]]n bow and arrows in a quiver]]
{{main|History of archery}}
The oldest evidence of likely arrowheads, dating to {{circa|64,000}} years ago, were found in [[Sibudu Cave]], current [[South Africa]].<ref name="Backwell">Backwell L, d'Errico F, Wadley L.(2008). Middle Stone Age bone tools from the Howiesons Poort layers, Sibudu Cave, South Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science, 35:1566–1580. {{doi|10.1016/j.jas.2007.11.006}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Wadley |first1=Lyn |year=2008 |title=The Howieson's Poort industry of Sibudu Cave |journal=South African Archaeological Society Goodwin Series |volume=10}}</ref><ref name="Lombard">{{Cite journal|title=Indications of bow and stone-tipped arrow use 64,000 years ago in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa |journal=Antiquity |volume=84 |issue=325 |pages=635–648 |year=2010 |doi=10.1017/S0003598X00100134 |vauthors=Lombard M, Phillips L|s2cid=162438490 }}</ref><ref name="Lombard M">{{Cite journal|title=Quartz-tipped arrows older than 60 ka: further use-trace evidence from Sibudu, Kwa-Zulu-Natal, South Africa |journal=Journal of Archaeological Science |year=2011 |doi=10.1016/j.jas.2011.04.001 |vauthors=Lombard M|volume=38 |issue=8 |pages=1918–1930 |bibcode=2011JArSc..38.1918L }}</ref><ref name="Backwell2018">Backwell L, Bradfield J, Carlson KJ, Jashashvili T, Wadley L, d'Errico F.(2018). The antiquity of bow-and-arrow technology: evidence from Middle Stone Age layers at Sibudu Cave. Journal of Archaeological Science, 92:289–303. {{doi|10.15184/aqy.2018.11}}</ref> Likely arrowheads made from animal bones have been discovered in the [[Fa Hien Cave]] in [[Sri Lanka]] which are also the oldest evidence for the use of arrows outside of Africa dating to {{circa|48,000}} years ago.<ref>[[Lyn Wadley]] from the [[University of the Witwatersrand]] (2010); [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11086110 BBC: Oldest evidence of arrows found]</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Ancient tools show how humans adapted to rainforests|url=https://api.nationalgeographic.com/distribution/public/amp/science/2020/06/tools-human-early-migration-rainforest-sri-lanka|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200613064329/https://api.nationalgeographic.com/distribution/public/amp/science/2020/06/tools-human-early-migration-rainforest-sri-lanka|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 13, 2020|website=[[National Geographic]]| date=12 June 2020 }}</ref> The oldest evidence of the use of bows to shoot arrows dates to about 10,000 years ago; it is based on [[pine]]wood arrows found in the [[Ahrensburg culture|Ahrensburg valley]] north of [[Hamburg]]. They had shallow grooves on the base, indicating that they were shot from a bow.<ref>McEwen E, Bergman R, Miller C. Early bow design and construction. Scientific American 1991 vol. 264 pp76-82.</ref> The oldest bow so far recovered is about 8,000 years old, found in the [[Holmegård]] swamp in Denmark. Archery seems to have arrived in the Americas with the [[Arctic small tool tradition]], about 4,500 years ago.