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Mesopotamia hunting tools


Mesopotamia hunting tools



    In Mesopotamia period. The arrows were made of pine and consisted of a mainshaft and a 15-20 centimetre (6-8 inches) long foreshaft with a flint point. There are no known definite earlier bows or arrows, but stone points which may have been arrowheads. The inspiration thing that made human in this period is a spear. They make a arrow that form look like a spear but smaller than spear for convenient to shoot it. That make this weapon can attack from long range and that to safe from dangerous animals.


    First for the material to made bow and arrow in this period. Bows were made of any springy material, including bamboo as well as various types of wood, and the bowstrings were made of animal gut. Arrows, which were normally made of wood shafts, were tipped with arrowheads were first made of burnt wood, then stone or bone.

For balance in bow and arrow is about balance in weight with there material 
Example a bow there made from wood or bamboo that very hard because it had to resist when they bend a bow and use an animal guts to make bowstrings that can pull when they bend a bow that make them balance and not fail. For arrow they use a stone or metal to make arrowhead that make a heavy weight at head. They use hard wood and be proper length to make it can hurl



     Thridly for movement about bow is curve. The material that use to made bow is hard wood and bamboo and for bowstrings is an animal gut but there two are very hard for use when they want to use they have to pull it in curve form that a good movement. For arrow went they shoot the arrow it not hurl in straight line. But it move curve and straight combine together.

Purpose : in mesopotamia they made hunting tools like bow and arrow that develop from spear to hunt animals for live and they can hunt from long range that make they safe from dangerous animal and for powerful in there tribe.

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