Scythian Bow presentations - Selby & Farrell

 Salvete Omnes,

a short entry then - :)  

I came across two videos on the ancient Scythian bows - I have been an archer since my childhood, although these days I shoot very infrequently. 

so, Two Videos from  On Target Consultancy or OTC, about 2 hours of talk and iconography, archaeology and practical analysis 

The Scythian Bow - Jack Farrell's presentation

The Scythian Bow - a discussion between Jack Farrell & dr Stephen Selby (of the Atarn ) and Masoud Golshani of the Scythian Group from Facebook. 

and some sketches

article from Hungary on the reconstructions and archery with the reconstructed bows - Academia : G. V. Szabó - A. Kiss - Z. H. Tóth: A shooting experiment with reconstructed Scythian arrows and bows. Based on discoveries made in Slovakia, Czechia and Hungary - the VIII-VII centuries BC in the  Carpathian region. 

ps

today is another anniversary of the famously unusual cavalry battle of Hodow 1694AD, this almost forgotten and rather heroic combat  between a small detachment of the elite Polish cavalry and the huge raiding army of the Crimean Tatars - Pacem Aeternam to the heroes . The actual 1695 AD monument erected by our king Jan III (Sobieski), still standing in Ukraine. 

Valete