Editing Huns (section)

===Bows and arrows===
[[File:02019 0565 Reflexbogen, Fürsten-Grab von Jakuszowice.jpg|thumb|A ceremonial "Hun-style" reflex bow reconstructed from sheet gold found in a nomad burial at Jakuszowice, modern Poland.{{sfn|Rodzińska-Nowak|2020|p=379, 383-384}}]]
Ancient Roman sources stress the importance of the bow to the Huns,{{sfn|Maenchen-Helfen|1973|p=221}} and it was the Huns' main weapon.{{sfn|Kazanski|2018|p=408}} The Huns used a composite or reflex bow of what is often called the "Hun-type", a style that had spread to all steppe nomads on the Eurasian steppe by the beginning of the Hun period.{{sfn|Symonenko|2017}} They measured between 120 and 150 centimeters. Examples are vary rare in the archaeological record, with finds in Europe clustering on the Pontic steppe and Middle Danube region.{{sfn|Kazanski|2018|p=408}} The rarity of surviving examples means that making precise statements about the advantages of this weapon is challenging.{{sfn|Rodzińska-Nowak|2020|p=383}} The bows were difficult to construct and probably objects of great value: They were made out of a flexible wood, strips of either antler or bone, and animal sinew.{{sfn|Rodzińska-Nowak|2020|pp=383-384}} The bone used to strengthen the bow made it more durable but probably less powerful.{{sfn|Rumschlag|2016|p=83}} The graves of figures identified as "princes" among the Huns have been found buried with golden, ceremonial bows in a wide area from the Rhine to the Dnieper.{{sfnm|1a1=Kim|1y=2013|1p=203 |2a1=Rodzińska-Nowak|2y=2020|2p=384}} Bows were buried with the object placed across the chest of the deceased.{{sfn|Rumschlag|2016|p=82-83}}

The bows shot larger arrows than the earlier "Scythian type" bows, with the appearance of iron, three-lobed arrowheads in the archaeological record taken as a sign of their spread.{{sfn|Symonenko|2017}} Ammianus, while recognizing the importance of Hunnic bows, does not appear well informed about them and claims, among other things, that the Huns only used bone-pointed arrows.{{sfn|Maenchen-Helfen|1973|pp=221-222}}