The bowstrings were found with wood-and-reed arrows and were used by the first European farmers. Roughly 7,000-year-old cords ...

Members of the research team analyzed a variety of artifacts from the Cueva de Los Murciélagos in Albuñol near Granada. Among the discoveries were 7,000-year-old bowstrings made of animal tendons that ...

An analysis of the materials in the bowstrings and arrow shafts reveal that they were made from the tendons of three different animals and various local woods. The findings are described in a ...

“This degree of precision and technical mastery, where every detail counts, attests to the exceptional knowledge of these Neolithic artisans,” Raquel Piqué , a study co-author and ...

A recent discovery in Spain has made waves in the field of archaeology. A team of researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) has uncovered the oldest known bowstrings in Europe, ...

In a study led by the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), scientists in Spain unearthed Neolithic bowstrings dating back to around 7,000 years ago. In Spain's Cueva de los Murciélagos, or Cave ...

A research team has uncovered exceptional evidence of prehistoric archery from the early Neolithic, including Europe’s oldest ...

But researchers were particularly interested in the bowstrings, a series of woven fibers that created the rope-like cord. The cords are made predominantly from animal products, including the ...