Concept art of a Polanian archer. After it was drawn, we realized that we cannot use it. Anyone can guess why?
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Composite bows, as in this image, had an enormous tension force of 40-80 kg. Therefore, a special arrow release type (AKA “Mongolian”) had to be used by the archers armed with it. And then the arrow would have been on the right side of the bow…
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For more details about ancient Slavic archery refer to our posts in September 2019.
